You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!

Amory wondered how people could fail to notice that he was a boy marked for glory, and when faces of the throng turned toward him and ambiguous eyes stared into his, he assumed the most romantic of expressions and walked on the air cushions that lie on the asphalts of fourteen.

The worst thing in the world is to try to sleep and not to.

Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

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

smoking had come to be an important punctuation mark in the long sentence of a day on the road.

Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her; If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, Till she cry "Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover, I must have you!