They were stars on this stage, each playing to an audience of two. - F. Scott Fitzgerald

I'm a slave to my emotions, to my likes, to my hatred of boredom, to most of my desires.

For a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

one of those men who reach such an acute limited excellence at twenty−one that everything afterward savors of anti−climax.