No one should live beyond 30.

You are mysterious, I love you. You’re beautiful, intelligent, and virtuous, and that’s the rarest known combination.

The faces of most American women over thirty are relief maps of petulant and bewildered unhappiness.

That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you're not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.

They were smiling at each other as if this was the beginning of the world.

If you try to create a type, you may end with nothing. If you do a good job of creating an individual, you may succeed at creating a type.

The failure and the success both believe in their hearts that they have accurately balanced points of view, the success because he's succeeded, and the failure because he's failed. The successful man tells his son to profit by his father's good fortune, and the failure tells his son to profit by his father's mistakes.