Once we were one person, and always it will be a little that way.

Very well then, better a sane crook than a mad puritan.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.

It's a great advantage not to drink among hard-drinking people. You can hold your tongue, and, moreover, you can time any little irregularity of your own so that everybody else is so blind that they don't see or care.

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.

Either you think, or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.