I can’t exactly describe how I feel but it’s not quite right. And it leaves me cold.

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

For a moment the last sunshine fell with romantic affection upon her glowing face; her voice compelled me forward breathlessly as I listened - then the glow faded, each light deserting her with lingering regret, like children leaving a pleasant street at dusk.

The cleverly expressed opposite of any generally accepted idea is worth a fortune to somebody.

You are the loveliest thing that I have ever known.

Marriage was created not to be a background but to need one. Mine is going to be outstanding. It can't, shan't be the setting - it's going to be the performance, the lively, lovely, glamorous performance, and the world shall be the scenery.

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.