Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

But I always felt that I'd rather be provincial hot-tamale than soup without seasoning.

So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

I never believe much in happiness. I never believe in misery either. Those are things you see on the stage or the screen or the printed page, they never really happen to you in life.

Your life on earth will be, as always, the interval between two significant glances in a mundane mirror.

She was incomprehensible, for, in her, soul and spirit were one - the beauty of her body was the essence of her soul. She was that unity sought for by philosophers through many centuries. In this outdoor waiting room of winds and stars she had been sitting for a hundred years, at peace in the contemplation of herself.