“It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely”

“There are people who are so cautious that they are careful not to waste their fear.”

“Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.”

“There are some strange cold people in this world. It is priests, I think...Training themselves out of natural feeling. They mean it for the best, of course.”

“however, he brought to mind instances of cultured fellows that promised so brilliantly nipped in the bud of premature decay and nobody to blame but themselves.”

“How soon country people forget. When they fall in love with a city it is forever, and it is like forever. As though there never was a time when they didn't love it. The minute they arrive at the train station or get off the ferry and glimpse the wide streets and the wasteful lamps lighting them, they know they are born for it. There, in a city, they are not so much new as themselves: their stronger, riskier selves.”