I simply state that I'm a product of a versatile mind in a restless generation - with every reason to throw my mind and pen in with the radicals. Even if, deep in my heart, I thought we were all blind atoms in a world as limited as a stroke of a pendulum, I and my sort would struggle against tradition; try, at least, to displace old cants with new ones. I've thought I was right about life at various times, but faith is difficult. One thing I know. If living isn't seeking for the grail it may be a damned amusing game.

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

you once liked me, didn't you?, he asked. LIKED you- I LOVED you. Everybody loved you. You could've had anybody you wanted for the asking.

The victor belongs to the spoils.

She was overstrained with grief and loneliness: almost any shoulder would have done as well.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world.

But his heart was in a constant, turbulent riot.