The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.

And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.

She shouldn't speak her thoughts; nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.

Of course you should study whatever you want. The written appreciation and understanding of literature, or any kind of artistic endeavour, is absolutely central to a decent society. Why d'you think books are the first things that the fascists burn?