I have lived hard and ruined the essential innocence [sic] in myself that could make it that possible [sic], and the fact that I have abused liquor is something to be paid for with suffering and death perhaps but not renunciation.

There has never been an American tragedy. There have only been great failures.

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

Her beauty climbed the rolling slope, it came into the room, rustling ghost-like through the curtains.

She laughed with thrilling scorn. "Sophisticated-God, I'm sophisticated!

But you can love more than just one person, can't you?

Some men have a necessity to be mean, as if they were exercising a faculty which they had to partially neglect since early childhood.