She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself

Can't repeat the past?" he cried incredulously. "Why of course you can!" He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.

Men don’t often know those times when a girl could be had for nothing.

America is a willingness of the heart.

Modern life... changes no longer century by century, but year by year, ten times faster than it ever has before-populations doubling, civilizations unified more closely with other civilizations, economic interdependence, racial questions, and-we're dawdling along. My idea is that we've got to go very much faster.

There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.

Personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures.