I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

Shakespeare--whetting, frustrating, surprising and gratifying.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

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.

I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.