Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

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

To have something to say is a question of sleepless nights and worry and endless ratiocination of subject - of endless trying to dig out the essential truth, the essential justice. As a first premise you have to develop a conscience and if on top of that you have talent so much the better. But if you have talent without the conscience, you are just one of many thousands of journalists.

I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

Angry, and half in love with her, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.

interested, I mean, with that intense personal interest to which every one has some vague right at the end