One thin's sure and nothing's surer The rich get richer and the poor get - children. In the meantime, In between time...

Was it the infinite sadness of her eyes that drew him or the mirror of himself that he found in the gorgeous clarity of her mind?

Let's borrow life preservers and jump over. I think we should do something spectacular. I feel that all our lives have been too restrained.

One hurries through, even though there's time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.

It is not merely enough to have the ability to be persistant, you must also have the ability to start over.

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?