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

I thought of Gatsby's wonder when he first picked out the green light at the end of Daisy's dock. He had come a long way to this lawn and his dream must have seemed so close that he could hardly fail to grasp it. He did not know that it was already behind him. [- Nick Carroway]

They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.

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

The truth was that for some months he had been going through that partitioning of the things of youth wherein it is decided whether or not to die for what one no longer believes.

The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.