It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

The helpless ecstasy of loosing himself in her charm was a powerful opiate rather than a tonic.

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken.