“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

“This is a thing which astonishes me no end, but affects you not.”

“Dammit, that yodel of triumph of yours was the most beautiful thing I've ever heard in my life. I wish I had a tape recorder to take it down."Those things aren't made to be heard by the people down below," says Japhy, dead serious.”

“Beautiful girlsJust primpBut beautiful boysDo suffer.”

“beautiful insanein the rain”

“Whoo, Frisco nights, the end of the continent and the end of doubt, all dull doubt and tomfoolery, good-by”

“It all ends in tears anyway.”