Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets.

Henry James was one of the nicest old ladies I ever met.

Caddy got the box and set it on the floor and opened it. It was full of stars. When I was still, they were still. When I moved, they glinted and sparkled. I hushed.

As long as I live under the capitalistic system I expect to have my life influenced by the demands of moneyed people. But I will be damned if I propose to be at the beck and call of every itinerant scoundrel who has two cents to invest in a postage stamp. This, sir, is my resignation.

She loved him not only in spite of but because he himself was incapable of love.

I took out my watch and listened to it clicking away, not knowing it couldn't even lie

And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and after a long time they cannot distinguish even bones upon the lonely and inviolate sand.