Most people are so busy knocking themselves out trying to do everything they think they should, they never get around to do what they want to do.

It seemed that up until this moment she had been only half alive.

War makes strangers bedfellows.

They had stopped now and he gave a glance up at the sky, through the trees, as though to see how much time was left. Amber, watching him, was suddenly struck with panic. Now he was going--out again into that great world with its bustle and noise and excitement--and she must stay here. She had a terrible new feeling of loneliness, as if she stood in some solitary corner at a party where she was the only stranger. Those places he had seen, she would never see; those fine things he had done, she would never do. But worst of all she would never see him again.

I think Americans love success - but hate the people who have it.

Success is often harder to take than failure.

[Sex] is something big and cosmic. What else do we have? There's only birth and death and the union of two people - and sex is the only one that happens to us more than once.