So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.

The clean book bill will be one of the most immoral measures ever adopted. It will throw American art back into the junk heap.

Whenever you feel like criticzing any one," he told me, "just remember that all the people in this world haven´t had the advantages that you've had.

I suppose books mean more than people to me anyway

She’s got an indiscreet voice,” I remarked. “It’s full of-“ I hesitated. “Her voice is full of money,” he said suddenly. That was it. I’d never understood before. It was full of money-that was the inexhaustible charm that rose and fell in it, the jingle of it, the cymbals’ song of it.

I've been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit in a library.

There's no beauty without poignancy and there's no poignancy without the feeling that it's going, men, names, books, houses--bound for dust--mortal--