And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

America is a willingness of the heart.

No decent career was ever founded on a public.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply.

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.