I was rather literary in college—one year I wrote a series of very solemn and obvious editorials for the 'Yale News.'—and now I was going to bring back all such things into my life and become again that most limited of all specialists, the 'well-rounded man.' This isn’t just an epigram—life is much more successfully looked at from a single window, after all.

The men--the undergraduates of Yale and Princeton are cleaner, healthier, better-looking, better dressed, wealthier and more attractive than any undergraduate body in the country.

How different it all was from what you'd planned.

Reporting the extreme things as if they were the average things will start you on the art of fiction.

I see you're looking at my cuff buttons." I hadn't been looking at them, but I did now.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each other, searched for each other, found each other a few feet away.