When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.

in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes

...the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise. This philosophy fitted on to my early adult life, when I saw the improbable, the implausible, often the "impossible," come true.

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

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

You can’t repeat the past.” “Can’t repeat the past?” he cried incredulously. “Why of course you can!