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

“It had only one fault. It was kind of lousy. ”

“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.”

“All human beings should try to learn before they die what they are running from, and to, and why.”

“It is better to have loafed and lost than never to have loafed at all.”

“I love the idea of there being two sexes, don't you?”

“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).”