Her face was sad and lovely with bright things in it, bright eyes and a bright passionate mouth, but there was an excitement in her voice that men who had cared for her found difficult to forget: a singing compulsion, a whispered “Listen,” a promise that she had done gay, exciting things just a while since and that there were gay, exciting things hovering in the next hour.

It's a mining town in lotus land.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

Youth is like having a big plate of candy. Sentimentalists think they want to be in the pure, simple state they were in before they ate the candy. They don't. They just want the fun of eating it all over again.

It's all life is. Just going 'round kissing people.

She confused him and hindered the flow of his ideas. Self-expression had never seemed at once so desirable and so impossible.