Often a man can play the helpless child in front of a woman, but he can almost never bring it off when he feels most like a helpless child. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Tom, I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

ROSALIND: Mother, I never think about money.
MRS. CONNAGE: You never keep it long enough to think about it.

"For the first time in years the tears were streaming down his face. But they were for himself now. He did not care about mouth and eyes and moving hands. He wanted to care, and he could not care. For he had gone away and he could never go back any more. The gates were closed, the sun was gone down, and there was no beauty but the gray beauty of steel that withstands all time. Even the grief he could have borne was left behind in the country of illusion, of youth, of the richness of life, where his winter dreams had flourished.

"Long ago," he said, "long ago, there was something in me, but now that thing is gone. Now that thing is gone, that thing is gone. I cannot cry. I cannot care. That thing will come back no more.