Most successes are unhappy. That's why they are successes - they have to reassure themselves about themselves by achieving something that the world will notice.
To every problem, there is a most simple solution.
One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.
I'm not often bored,' I assured her. "Life's not long enough for that.
... obsessions are always dangerous.
There hung about her the restrained energy of a whiplash.