The ability to hold two competing thoughts in one's mind and still be able to function is the mark of a superior mind

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

When the lightning strikes one of us, it strikes both

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

I want to be a society vampire, you see.

The victor belongs to the spoils.