Intermittently she caught the gist of his sentences and supplied the rest from her subconscious, as one picks up the striking of a clock in the middle with only the rhythm of the first uncounted strokes lingering in the mind.

Happiness is the relief after extreme tension

He had possessed the arrogance of a tall member of a short race, with no obligation save to be tall.

And I like large parties. They’re so intimate. At small parties there isn’t any privacy.

I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you're proud of. If you find that you're not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

The extraordinary thing is not that people in a lifetime turn out worse or better than we had prophesied; particularly in America that is to be expected. The extraordinary thing is how people keep their levels, fulfill their promises, seem actually buoyed up by an inevitable destiny.

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.