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

Once a change of direction has begun, even though it's the wrong one, it still tends to clothe itself as thoroughly in the appurtenances of Tightness as if it had been a natural all along.

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

You remind me of a smoked cigarette.

She was a dark, unenduring little flower - yet he thought he detected in her some quality of spiritual reticence, of strength drawn from her passive acceptance of all things. In this he was mistaken.

I might have enjoyed the company of a woman or two... Or three but that had never stopped me from loving you.

I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.