Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shifted our relations, and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires, and I knew that first I had to get myself definitely out of that tangle back home.

You can take Hollywood for granted like I did, or you can dismiss it with the contempt we reserve for what we don't understand. It can be understood too, but only dimly and in flashes. Not half a dozen men have ever been able to keep the whole equation of pictures in their heads.

There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

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

I’ve heard it said that Daisy’s murmur was only to make people lean toward her; an irrelevant criticism that made it no less charming.

Very strong personalities must confine themselves in mutual conversation to very gentle subjects.