Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

then, as though it had been waiting on a near by roof for their arrival, the moon came slanting suddenly through the vines and turned the girl's face the color of white roses.

I want to die violently instead of fading out sentimentally.

No such thing as a man willing to be honest - that would be like a blind man willing to see.

Talk English to me, Tommy. Parlez francais avec moi, Nicole. But the meanings are different-- in French you can be heroic and gallant with dignity, and you know it. But in English you can't be heroic and gallant without being a little absurd, and you know that too. That gives me an advantage.

Let us learn to show our friendship for a man when he is alive and not after he is dead.