First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function.
I fell in love with her courage, her sincerity, and her flaming self respect. And it's these things I'd believe in, even if the whole world indulged in wild suspicions that she wasn't all she should be. I love her and it is the beginning of everything.
I wasn't actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.
I'm not sentimental. I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know,is that the sentimental person thinks things will last. the romantic, person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.
New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.
Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.
The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is stare blankly.
I felt a haunting loneliness sometimes, and felt it in others--young clerks in the dusk, wasting the most poignant moments of night and life.
There’s a loneliness that only exists in one’s mind. The loneliest moment in someone’s life is when they are watching their whole world fall apart, and all they can do is blink.
Simultaneously the whole party moved toward the water, super-ready from the long, forced inaction, passing from the heat to the cool with the gourmandise of a tingling curry eaten with chilled white wine.
You are the finest, loveliest, tenderest, and most beautiful person I have ever known—and even that is an understatement.
It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning light it scattered the night and made the day worth living.
It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.
I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.
I'm not sentimental--I'm as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last--the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won't.
