the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

My generation of radicals and breakers-down never found anything to take the place of the old virtues of work and courage and the old graces of courtesy and politeness.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

We all must try to be good.

They were still in the happier stages of love. They were full of brave illusions about each other, tremendous illusions, so that the communion of self with self seemed to be on a plane where no other human relations mattered.

When I'm with you, I don't breathe quite right.