she knew that for her the greatest sin now and in the future was to delude herself. It had been a long lesson but she had learned it. Either you thin… - F. Scott Fitzgerald

Either you think — or else others have to think for you and take power from you, pervert and discipline your natural tastes, civilize and sterilize you.

I was rather literary in college — one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.' — and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram — life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

They're such beautiful shirts,' she sobbed, her voice muffled in the thick folds. 'It makes me sad because I've never seen such - such beautiful shirts before.

So he nodded, smiled, listened, was happy.