He's sensitive and I don't want him to break his heart over somebody who doesn't care about him.

We all have souls of different ages

I think they're very attractive,' Abe agreed. 'I just don't think they're attractive, that's all.

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.

Genius is the ability to put into effect what is on your mind.

Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.