“sometimes i wish i'd been an englishman; american life is so damned dumb and stupid and healthy”

“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard... It just hurts people and hurts people, until finally it hurts them so that they can't be hurt ever any more. That's the last and worst thing it does.”

“How I feel is that if I wanted anything I'd take it. That's what I've always thought all my life. But it happens that I want you, and so I just haven't room for any other desires.”

“Then he put in a call for Nicole in Zurich, remembering so many things as he waited, and wishing he had always been as good as he had intended to be.”

“Americans, while occasionally willing to be serfs, have always been obstinate about being peasantry.”

“Wilson? He thinks she goes to see her sister in New York. He's so dumb he doesn't know he's alive.”

“They damned the books I read and the things I thought by calling them immoral; later the fashion changed, and they damned things by calling them ‘clever.”