Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.

Looking for love is like asking for a new point of departure ... another chance in life.

I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the delicious damp grass that grows near old walls and that your hands are beautiful opening out of your sleeves and that the back of your head is a mossy sheltered cave when there is trouble in the wind and that my cheek just fits the depression in your shoulder.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Anything incomprehensible has a sexual significance to many people under thirty-five.

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.

Emptying the ashtrays was very expressive of myself. i just lump everything in a great heap which i have labeled ‘the past,’ and having thus emptied this deep reservoir that was once myself, i am ready to continue.