"By the time a person has achieved years adequate for choosing a direction, the die is cast and the moment has long since passed which determined the future."

"We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion."

"I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally."

"It is the loose ends with which men hang themselves."

"Mr. Fitzgerald, I believe that is how he spells his name, seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home."

"Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold."

"Youth doesn't need friends - it only needs crowds."