“Oh, why was he so handsomely blond, so courteously aloof, so maddeningly boring with his talk about Europe and books and music and poetry and things that interested her not at all - and yet so desirable?”
“I can't imagine why you're so interested."He shook his head. "Interested? We're talking about you. I'm fascinated.”
“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn”
“It's all so beautiful . . . the spring . . . and books and music and fires. . . . Why aren't they enough?”
“We talk so abstractly about poetry because all of us are usually bad poets.”
“When he went into that bar and saw Tony there with somebody, his head close to a handsome blond one, his hand on the man’s arm, Mac had been so…jealous.”