Youth doesn't need friends -- it only needs crowds.

Other people's ideas of us are dependent largely on what they've hoped for.

memories should be sharp when one has nothing else to live for

Most people hew the battlements of life from compromise, erecting their impregnable keeps from judicious submissions, fabricating their philosophical drawbridges from emotional retractions and scalding marauders in the boiling oil of sour grapes.

Love is bitter and all there is, and that the rest is for the emotional beggars of the earth.

I wish I could write a beautiful book to break those hearts that are soon to cease to exist: a book of faith and small neat worlds and of people who live by the philosophies of popular songs.

["The Sun Also Rises" is about] bullfighting, bullslinging and bullsh[*]t.