“I want leisure to read—an immense amount.”

“I want you to take a red-hot bath as hot as you can bear it, and just relax your nerves. You can read in the tub if you wish.”

“Gloria was sure she wanted but to read and dream and be fed tomato sandwiches and lemonades by some angelic servant”

“A man's social rank is determined by the amount of bread he eats in a sandwich.”

“No amount of fire or freshness can challenge what a man will store up in his ghostly heart.”

“The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.”

“And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of my life.”