"And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer."
"There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired."
"Human sympathy has its limits."
"You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me."
"So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past."
"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."