i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

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

Whenever you feel like criticizing any one... just remember that all the people in this world haven't had the advantages that you've had.

New York had all the iridescence of the beginning of the world. The returning troops marched up Fifth Avenue and girls were instinctively drawn East and North toward them - this was the greatest nation and there was gala in the air.

Then came the war, old sport. It was a great relief, and I tried very hard to die, but I seemed to bear an enchanted life.

I'm restless. My whole generation is restless. I'm sick of a system where the richest man gets the most beautiful girl if he wants her, where the artist without an income has to sell his talents to a button manufacturer. Even if I had no talents I'd not be content to work ten years, condemned either to celibacy or a furtive indulgence, to give some man's son an automobile.

he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass.