The sign of intelligence is the ability to carry opposed thoughts at the same time.

Experience is not worth the getting. It's not a thing that happens pleasantly to a passive you--it's a wall that an active you runs up against.

What do you think of that? It’s stopped raining." I’m glad Jay." Her throat, full of aching, grieving beauty, told only of her unexpected joy.

I don't care about truth. I want some happiness.

First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.

The two basic stories of all times are Cinderella and Jack the Giant Killer-the charm of women and the courage of men.

At the enchanted metropolitan twilight I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others -- poor young clerks who loitered in front of windows waiting until it was time for a solitary restaurant dinner -- young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.