“It is all but impossible to sit quietly by when someone is throwing salad plates.”

“My mother, for instance, thought-or rather, knew-that it was dangerous to drive an automobile without gasoline: it fried the valves, or something. 'Now don't you dare drive all over town without gasoline!' she would say to us when we started off" (31).”

“You are all a lost generation," Gertrude Stein said to Hemingway. We weren't lost. We knew where we were, all right, but we wouldn't go home. Ours was the generation that stayed up all night.”

“It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.”

“We all have faults, mine is being wicked.”

“Well, I'm disenchanted, too. We're all disenchanted.”

“Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.”