Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby’s house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held...

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...

An artist is someone who can hold two opposing viewpoints and still remain fully functional.

Knows everything and at the same time he knows nothing.” [narrator]It was my first inkling that he was a writer. And while I like writers—because if you ask a writer anything you usually get an...

Man in his hunger for faith will feed his mind with the nearest and most convenient food.

Go on, she urged. Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.

This is what I think now; that the natural state of the sentient adult is a qualified unhappiness. I think also that in an adult the desire to be finer in grain than you are,...

Durante il fragoroso decollo Dick si sentì intorpidito, rendendosi conto di quanto fosse stanco. Un’enorme persuasiva tranquillità s’impossessò di lui, e lasciò la malattia ai malati, il rumore ai motori, la direzione ai piloti.

He was in love with every pretty woman he saw now, their forms at a distance, their shadows on the walls.

Many times he had tried unsuccessfully to let go his hold on her. They had many fine times together, fine talks between the loves of the white nights, but always when he turned away from...

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

They’re a rotten crowd’, I shouted across the lawn. ‘You’re worth the whole damn bunch put together.

My courage is faith–faith in the eternal resilience of me–that joy’ll come back, and hope and spontaneity. And I feel that till it does I’ve got to keep my lips shut and my chin high...

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.

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don’t like this kiss-and-forget.”But I don’t want to argue. I think it’s wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can’t it’ll...

I hope I haven’t given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there trying to forget the sad things that happened to me.

Deep in his heart, he wondered if he was after all worse than this man or the next. He knew that he could sophisticate himself finally into saying that his own weakness was just the...

I don’t ask you to love me always like this but I ask you to remember. Somewhere inside of me there will always be the person I am tonight.