“the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

“Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.”

“She wanted to exist only as a conscious flower, prolonging and preserving herself”

“I can’t tell you just how wonderful she is. I don’t want you to know. I don’t want any one to know.”

“Things are sweeter when they're lost. I know--because once I wanted something and got it. It was the only thing I ever wanted badly, Dot, and when I got it it turned to dust in my hand.”

“We are all queer fish, queerer behind our faces and voices than we want any one to know or than we know ourselves.”

“The compensation of a very early success is a conviction that life is a romantic matter. In the best sense one stays young.”