So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

They seemed nearer, not only mentally, but physically when they read ... Their chance was to make everything fine and finished and rich and imaginative; they must bend tiny golden tentacles from his imagination to hers, that would take the place of the great, deep love that was never so near, yet never so much of a dream.

There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.