I love her and that's the beginning and end of everything.

Well, you never knew exactly how much space you occupied in people's lives. Yet from this fog his affection emerged--the best contacts are when one knows the obstacles and still wants to preserve a relation.

I shall go on shining as a brilliantly meaningless figure in a meaningless world.

People invariably chose inimitable people to imitate.

I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, entirely justified.

She smiled at him, making sure that the smile gathered up everything inside her and directed it toward him, making him a profound promise of herself for so little, for the beat of a response, the assurance of a complimentary vibration in him.

Once I thought that Lake Forest was the most glamorous place in the world. Maybe it was.