And that taught me you can't have anything, you can't have anything at all. Because desire just cheats you. It's like a sunbeam skipping here and there about a room. It stops and gilds some inconsequential object, and we poor fools try to grasp it - but when we do the sunbeam moves on to something else, and you've got the inconsequential part, but the glitter that made you want it is gone.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

For what it's worth, it's never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you're proud of and if you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start over.

So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight.

Almost everybody can be imagined as either a cat or a dog.

It was one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it, that you may come across four or five times in life.

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