“Any person with any imagination is bound to be afraid.”

“You're a slave, a bound helpless slave to one thing in this world, your imagination.”

“Writers aren’t people exactly. Or, if they’re any good, they’re a whole lot of people trying so hard to be one person.”

“To be afraid, a person has either to be very great and strong-- or else a coward. I'm neither.”

“Given a decent start any girl can beat a man nowadays.”

“In any case you mustn't confuse a single failure with a final defeat.”

“Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?"I didn't answer.Nick?" he asked again.What?"Want any?"No... I just remembered that today's my birthday."I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.”