“There is nothing like puking with somebody to make you into old friends.”

“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”

“At about this point I began to feel peculiar. I looked round me at all the rows of rapt little heads with the same silver glow on them at the front and the same black shadow on them at the back, and they looked like nothing more or less than a lot of stupid moon-brains. I felt in terrible danger of puking. I didn’t know whether it was the awful movie giving me a stomach-ache or all that caviar I had eaten.”

“If you love her", I said, "you'll love somebody else someday.”

“My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.”

“Nothing stinks like a pile of unpublished writing.”

“And I, stepping from this skinOf old bandages, boredoms, old facesStep to you from the black car of Lethe,Pure as a baby.”