Fairies: Nature's attempt to get rid of soft boys by sterilizing them.

...one emotion after another crept into her face like objects into a slowly developing picture.

I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.

Speech is an arrangement of notes that will never be played again.

There's so much spring in the air- there's so much lazy sweetness in your heart.

Of course all life is a process of breaking down, but the blows that do the dramatic side of the work-- the big sudden blows that come, or seem to come, from outside-- the ones you remember and blame things on and, in moments of weakness, tell your friends about, don't show their effect all at once. There is another sort of blow that comes from within-that you don't feel until it's too late to do anything about it, until you realize with finality that in some regard you will never be as good a man again.

He's a bootlegger....One time he killed a man who found out that he was nephew to Von Hindenburg and second cousin to the devil.