Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.

Everybody's youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness.

The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and the beauty in the world.

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.

Sometimes I don't know whether I'm real or whether I'm a character in one of my novels.

I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Stahr's eyes and Kathleen's met and tangled. For an instant they made love as no one ever dares to do after. Their glance was slower than an embrace, more urgent than a call.