If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she's late? Nobody.

I don't suppose a writing man ever really gets rid of his old crocus-yellow neckties. Sooner or later, I think, they show up in his prose, and there isn't a hell of a lot he can do about it.

I don't really deeply feel that anyone needs an airtight reason for quoting from the works of writers he loves, but it's always nice, I'll grant you, if he has one.

Bessie: 'Why don't you get married?' Zooey: 'I like riding in trains too much. You never get to sit next to the window anymore when you're married.

There are still a few men who love desperately.

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.

I like it when somebody gets excited about something. It's nice.