The sun rose yellow as a lemon.The sky was round and blue.The birds looped clear water songs in the air.Will and Jim leaned from their windows.Nothing had changed.Except the look in Jim's eyes.Last night. . . said Will. Did or didn't it happen?

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

In order for a thing to be horrible it has to suffer a change you can recognize.

Don't talk about it; write.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

It won't work,' Mr. Bentley continued, sipping his tea. 'No matter how hard you try to be what you once were, you can only be what you are here and now. Time hypnotizes. When you're nine, you think you've always been nine years old and will always be. When you're thirty, it seems you've always been balanced there on that bright rim of middle life. And then when you turn seventy, you are always and forever seventy. You're in the present, you're trapped in a young now or an old now, but there is no other now to be seen.

I don't like to go to theaters, because I don't like the way most people behave in theaters.