“I was a little shocked at the elaborateness of the lie.”

“So my first impression, that he was a person of some undefined consequence, had gradually faded and he had become simply the proprietor of an elaborate road-house next door.”

“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”

“I don't give a damn about you now, but it was a new experience for me and I felt a little dizzy for a while.”

“Lie to me by the moonlight. Do a fabulous story.”

“I hope she'll be a fool -- that's the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.”

“but I felt that Tom would drift on forever seeking, a little wistfully, for the dramatic turbulence of some irrecoverable football game”