By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future.

Nothing annoys me more than having the most trivial action analyzed and explained.

Pronunciation has made many an innocent word sound like a doctor's orders for a stomach pump.

And, Joey, if you ever want to know about the japonicas and the daisy fields it will be alright that you have forgotten because I will be able to tell you about how it felt to be feeling that way you cannot quite remember – that will be for the time when something happens years from now that reminds you of now.

All I want to be is very young always and very irresponsible and to feel that my life is my own-to live and be happy and die in my own way to please myself

It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves.

It seems to me that on one page I recognized a portion of an old diary of mine which mysteriously disappeared shortly after my marriage, and, also, scraps of letters which, though considerably edited, sound to me vaguely familiar. In fact, Mr. Fitzgerald (I believe that is how he spells his name) seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.