Oh, you can't describe someone you're in love with!

Only some radical change can divert the downward course of my spirit, some startling new place or people to arrest the drift, the drag.

Of course you always had that detached quality as if you were playing a game without much concern over whether you won or lost, and now that you've lost the game, not lost but just quit playing, you have that rare sort of charm that usually only happens in very old or hopelessly sick people, the charm of the defeated.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

Blanche: No, I have the misfortune of being an English instructor. I attempt to instill a bunch of bobby-soxers and drugstore Romeos with a reverence for Hawthorne and Whitman and Poe!

We are all civilized people, wich means that we are all savages at heart but observing a few amenities of civilized behaviour.

You can be young without money but you can't be old without it.