They were a society whose chief vocations were to entertain and be entertained.

Don't go looking for boys in the dark They will say pretty things then leave you with scars. Do go looking for boys in the park For that is where the true gentlemen are.

Oh yes, well, I find myself unconventional everywhere.

Love is all right, as things go, but lovers can be a terrible waste of a girl's time.

She was like a heroine in a novel that she herself was writing the character kept protesting that she was too strong for love and yet the narrator went on describing her desire.

The world is such a marvel - it gave you trials, but if you were still and concentrated, if you tried to do the right thing, it always provided you with salvation.

There was no pleasure like being envied on a mass scale.