Something was making him nibble at the edge of stale ideas as if his sturdy physical egotism no longer nourished his peremptory heart.

When a man is tired of life on his 21st birthday it indicates that he is rather tired of something in himself.

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

The mind of a little child is fascinating, for it looks on old things with new eyes-but at about twelve this changes. The adolescent offers nothing, can do nothing, say nothing that the adult cannot do better.

I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.

It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are as significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less a moth eaten man who grinds an organ - and once he was an organ-grinder! The unmistakable stigma of humanity touches all those impersonal and beautiful things that only youth ever grasps in their impersonal glory.

Hard to sit here and be close to you, and not kiss you.