Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big.

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.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Character is plot, plot is character.