Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

Learn young about hard work and manners - and you'll be through the whole dirty mess and nicely dead again before you know it.

I'm a cynical idealist.

Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.

You really ought to read more books - you know, those things that look like blocks but come apart on one side.

It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.

She looked at me and laughed pointlessly. Then she flounced over to the dog, kissed it with ecstasy, and swept into the kitchen, implying that a dozen chefs awaited her orders there.