Want any of this stuff? Jordan?... Nick?" I didn't answer. Nick?" he asked again. What?" Want any?" No... I just remembered that today's my birthday." I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

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.

My God,' he gasped, 'you're fun to kiss.

The first lights of the evening were springing into pale existence. The Ferris wheel, pricked out now in lights, revolved leisurely through the dusk; a few empty cars of the roller coaster rattled overhead.

I hope something happens. I'm restless as the devil and have a horror of getting fat or falling in love and growing domestic.

But I suppose you must touch life in order to spring from it.

Her voice is full of money.