To be kind is more important than to be right. Many times, what people need is not a brilliant mind that speaks but a special heart that listens.

I love New York on summer afternoons when everyone's away. There's something very sensuous about it - overripe, as if all sorts of funny fruits were going to fall into your hands.

Amory: I love you. Rosalind: I love you- now.

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.

good manners are an admission that everybody is so tender that they have to be handle with gloves.

So I walked away and left him standing there in the moonlight - watching over nothing.

Long afterward Amory thought of sophomore spring as the happiest time of his life. His ideas were in tune with life as he found it; he wanted no more than to drift and dream and enjoy a dozen new-found friendships through the April afternoons.