Ernest [Hemmingway] was always ready to lend a helping hand to the one on the rung above him.

I am too much a moralist at heart, and really want to preach at people in some acceptable form, rather than entertain them.

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

He hadn’t once ceased looking at Daisy, and I think he revalued everything in his house according to the measure of response it drew from her well-loved eyes. Sometimes, too, he stared around at his possessions in a dazed way, as though in her actual and astounding presence none of it was any longer real.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.

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

my imagination persisted in sticking horrors into the dark- so I stuck my imagination into the dark instead, and let it look out at me.