Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?

This was the price you paid for sleeping together. This was the end of the trap. This was what people got for loving each other.

Just as, with the radio, there are certain things that you become fond of,and you welcome them and resent the new things

But did thee feel the earth move?

I hate a cramp, he thought. It is a treachery of one's own body.

I try not to borrow, first you borrow then you beg.

Decadence is a difficult word to use since it has become little more than a term of abuse applied by critics to anything they do not yet understand or which seems to differ from their moral concepts.