Character is plot, plot is character.

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

We all have souls of different ages

He wanted to appear suddenly to her in novel and heroic colors. He wanted to stir her from that casualness she showed toward everything except herself.

Well, let it pass, he thought; April is over, April is over. There are all kinds of love in the world, but never the same love twice. --The Sensible Thing

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

unloved women have no biographies-- they have histories