If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and never get tired

sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy

I am a woman and my business is to hold things together. My business is to tear them apart.

Amory took to writing poetry on spring afternoons, in the gardens of the big estates near Princeton, while swans made effective atmosphere in the artificial pools, and slow clouds sailed harmoniously above the willow. May came too soon, and suddenly unable to bear walls, he wandered the campus at all hours through starlight and rain.

It takes two to make an accident.

I'm one of those people who go through the world giving other people thrills, but getting few myself except those I read into men on such nights as these. I have the social courage to go on the stage, but not the energy; I haven't the patience to write books; and I never met a man I'd marry. However, I'm only eighteen.

The rich get richer and the poor get - children.