“You're three or four different men but each of them out in the open. Like all Americans.”

“Their point of resemblance to each other and their difference from so many American women, lay in the fact that they were all happy to exist in a man's world--they preserved their individuality through men and not by opposition to them. They would all three have made alternatively good courtesans or good wives not by the accident of birth but through the greater accident of finding their man or not finding him.”

“It occurred to me that there was no difference between men, in intelligence or race, so profound as the difference between the sick and the well.”

“That however the brains and abilities of men may differ, their stomachs are essentially the same.”

“To write it, it took three months; to conceive it three minutes; to collect the data in it all my life. ”

“In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it-- three minutes; to collect the data in it-- all my life.”

“And now Rosalind enters. Rosalind is-- utterly Rosalind. She is one of those girls who need never make the slightest effort to have men fall in love with them. Two types of men seldom do: dull men are usually afraid of her cleverness and intellectual men are usually afraid of her beauty. All others are hers by natural prerogative.”