"I'm not sure it didn't kill it out of the whole world.

Oh, Lord, what a pleasure it used to be to dream I might be a really great dictator or writer or religious or political leader--and now even a Leonardo da Vinci or Lorenzo de Medici couldn't be a real old-fashioned bolt in the world.

Life is too huge and complex.

The world is so overgrown that it can't lift its own fingers, and I was planning to be such an important finger--" "I don't agree with you," Tom interrupted.

"There never were men placed in such egotistic positions since--oh, since the French Revolution." Amory disagreed violently.
"You're mistaking this period when every nut is an individualist for a period of individualism.