I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

Cut out all these exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own joke.

Switzerland is a country where very few things begin, but many things end.

Once in a while I go off on a spree and make a fool of myself, but I always come back, and in my heart I love her all the time. - The Great Gatsby.

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

No one person in the world is necessary to you or to me.

What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.