Tireless passion, fierce jealousy, longing to possess and crush-these alone were left of all his love for Rosalind; these remained to him as payment for the loss of his youth-bitter calomel under the thin sugar of love's exaltation.

Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child.

I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known.

I hope you live a life you're proud of...

The rhythm of the weekend, with its birth, its planned gaiety, and its announced end, followed the rhythm of life and was a substitute for it.

They're a rotten crowd', I shouted across the lawn. 'You're worth the whole damn bunch put together.

It is not life that's complicated, it's the struggle to guide and control life.