Draw your chair up close to the edge of the precipice and I’ll tell you a story.

To a profound pessimist about life, being in danger is not depressing.

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

Then he kissed her. At his lips' touch she blossomed for him like a flower and the incarnation was complete.

The world, as a rule, does not live on beaches and in country clubs.

God knows what you've been doing, everything you've been doing. You may fool me, but you can't fool God!

He talked a lot about the past and I gathered that he wanted to recover something, some idea of himself perhaps, that had gone into loving Daisy.