Character is plot, plot is character.

The history of my life is the history of the struggle between an overwhelming urge to write and a combination of circumstances bent on keeping me from it.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man's duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.

And in the end, we were all just humans...Drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.

I'm not much like myself any more.

Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.