A new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken...

Most affectations conceal something eventually, even though they don't in the beginning.

It is invariably saddening to look through new eyes at things upon which you have expended your own powers of adjustment.

A sense of the fundamental decencies is parceled out unequally at birth.

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.