It’s just that I feel so sad these wonderful nights. I sort of feel they’re never coming again, and I’m not really getting all I could out of them.
The Montana sunset lay between the mountains like a giant bruise from which darkened arteries spread across a poisoned sky.
I’ll drink your champagne. I’ll drink every drop of it, I don’t care if it kills me.
It’s all life is. Just going ’round kissing people.
Life cracked like ice!
Selfish people are in a way terribly capable of great loves.
I want to give a really BAD party. I mean it. I want to give a party where there’s a brawl and seductions and people going home with their feelings hurt and women passed out in the cabinet de toilette. You wait and see.
Human sympathy has its limits.
Before you criticize others, remember, they may not have had the same opportunities in life as you have had.
One hurries through, even though there’s time; the past, the continent, is behind; the future is the glowing mouth in the side of the ship; the dim, turbulent alley is too confusedly the present.
For awhile after you quit Keats all other poetry seems to be only whistling or humming.
Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.
Genius goes around the world in its youth incessantly apologizing for having large feet. What wonder that later in life it should be inclined to raise those feet too swiftly to fools and bores.
When he buys his ties he has to ask if gin will make them run.
America is a willingness of the heart.
Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.
It appears that every man’s insomnia is as different from his neighbours as are their daytime hopes and aspirations.
I think that we already have a really good system in town, but I have a vision that it could be even better. My vision is that academic excellence is the area that we should pursue more, coupled with fiscal discipline.
He knew that when he kissed this girl, and forever wed his unutterable visions to her perishable breath, his mind would never romp again like the mind of God.
People talk of the courage of convictions, but in actual life a man’s duty to his family may make a rigid course seem a selfish indulgence of his own righteousness.