"Strange children should smile at each other and say, "Let's play."

"You're not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not... No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me."

"Sometimes it is harder to deprive oneself of a pain than of a pleasure."

"You're the only girl I've seen for a long time that actually did look like something blooming."

"I won’t kiss you. It might get to be a habit and I can’t get rid of habits."

"She was dazzling-- alight; it was agony to comprehend her beauty in a glance."

"Later she remembered all the hours of the afternoon as happy -- one of those uneventful times that seem at the moment only a link between past and future pleasure, but turn out to have been the pleasure itself."

"Great books write themselves, only bad books have to be written."

"Youth is a dream, a form of chemical madness."

"People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide."

"I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic."

"I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library."

"A woman should be able to kiss a man beautifully and romantically without any desire to be either his wife or his mistress."

"I'm a cynical idealist."

"New friends can often have a better time together than old friends."

"Do "you "ever wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always wait for the longest day of the year and then miss it!"

"...and for a moment I thought I loved her. But I am slow-thinking and full of interior rules that act as brakes on my desires"

"There is no confusion like the confusion of a simple mind…"

"I love her, and that's the beginning and end of everything."

"He looked at her the way all women want to be looked at by a man."

"There is a moment—Oh, just before the first kiss, a whispered word—something that makes it worth while."

"I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires."

"Every one suspects himself of at least one of the cardinal virtues, and this is mine: I am one of the few honest people that I have ever known."

"If personality is an unbroken series of successful gestures, then there was something gorgeous about him"