A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress.

But he hated to be sober. It made him conscious of the people around him, of that air of struggle, of greedy ambition, of hope more sordid than despair, of incessant passage up or down.

I am tired of knowing nothing and being reminded of it all the time.

America is a willingness of the heart.

When you're older you'll know what people who love suffer. The agony. It's better to be cold and young than to love. It's happened to me before but never like this - so accidental - just when everything was going well.

For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.

Scratch a Yale man with both hands and you'll be lucky to find a coast-guard. Usually you find nothing at all.