The transition from libertine to prig was so complete.

"I was counting the waves", replied Amory gravely, "I'm going in for statistics".

It’s a great advantage not to drink among hard drinking people.

No matter how low you go, there's always an unexplored basement.

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

Even when everything seems rotten you can't trust that judgment. It's the sum of all your judgments that counts.

And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.