New friends can often have a better time together than old friends.

Men she knew'? - she had conceded vaguely to herself that all men who had ever been in love with her were her friends.

I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.

Don't let yourself feel worthless: often through life you will really be at your worst when you seem to think best of yourself; and don't worry about losing your "personality," as you persist in calling it: at fifteen you had the radiance of early morning, at twenty you will begin to have the melancholy brilliance of the moon, and when you are my age you will give out, as I do, the genial golden warmth of 4 p.m.

why shouldn't he? All life is just a progression toward and then a recession from one phrase-- 'I love you

Then it had not been merely the stars to which he had aspired on that June night. He came alive to me, delivered suddenly from the womb of his purposeless splendour.

And Yale is November, crisp and energetic.