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

Amory thought how it was only the past that seemed strange and unbelievable.

The officer looked at Daisy while she was speaking, in a way that every young girl wants to be looked at sometime, and because it seemed romantic to me I have remembered the incident ever since.

I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.

I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.

the growth of intimacy is like that. First one gives off his best picture, the bright and finished product mended with bluff and falsehood and humour. Then more details are required and one paints a second portrait, and a third – before long the best lines cancel out – and the secret is exposed at last; the planes of the pictures have intermingled and given us away, and though we paint and paint we can no longer sell a picture. We must be satisfied with hoping that such fatuous accounts of ourselves as we make to our wives and children and business associates are accepted as true

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