"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."
"And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy."
"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."
"I was within and without, simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life."
"I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool."