I've noticed that the children of other nations always seem precocious. That's because the strange manners of their elders have caught our attention most and the children echo those manners enough to seem like their parents.

He had waited five years and bought a mansion where he dispensed starlight to casual moths - so that he could 'come over' some afternoon to a stranger's garden.

I was in love with a whirlwind, so when the girl threw me over, I went home and finished my novel.

She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life.

but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game