Sometimes I wish I'd went through those good times stone cold sober so I could remember everything," he said, "but then again, if I had been sober the times probably wouldn't have been worth remembering.

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Once one is caught up into the material world not one person in ten thousand finds the time to form literary taste, to examine the validity of philosophic concepts for himself, or to form what, for lack of a better phrase, I might call the wise and tragic sense of life.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

The rich are different from us.

It was as if for the remainder of his life he was condemned to carry with him the egos of certain people, early met and early loved, and to be only as complete as they were complete themselves. There was some element of loneliness involved--so easy to be loved--so hard to love.