Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.

I may turn out an intellectual, but I'll never write anything but mediocre poetry.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--

I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

I talk with the authority of failure - Ernest with the authority of success. We could never sit across the same table again.

It was testimony to the romantic speculation he inspired that there were whispers about him from those who had found little that it was necessary to whisper about in this world.

Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play.