I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.

Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

Long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.

They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two.

There are all kinds of love in this world but never the same love twice.

I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with truth - and I found, moreover, that there was no great literary tradition; there was only the tradition of the eventful death of every literary tradition.