You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.
When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm
So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past..
I had traded the fight against love for the fight against loneliness, the fight against life for the fight against death.
A fellow has to believe in something, Jay-such as the rottenness of humanity.
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.
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She...
Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions.
Happiness, remarked Maury Noble one day, is only the first hour after the alleviation of some especially intense misery.
Nothing is as obnoxious as other people's luck.
In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
So we'll just let things take their course, and never be sorry.
I like France, where everybody thinks he's Napoleon--down here everybody thinks he's Christ.
A phrase began to beat in my ears with a sort of heady excitement: There are only the pursued, the pursuing, the busy and the tired.
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
Understand now, I'm purely a fiction writer and do not profess to be an earnest student of political science, but I believe strongly that such a law as one prohibiting liquor is foolish, and all the w...
I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
The exhilarating ripple of her voice was a wild tonic in the rain.
She was beautiful - but especially she was without mercy.
Life is much more successfully looked at from a single window.