I was within and without. Simultaneously enchanted and repelled by the inexhaustible variety of life.

When a girl feels that she’s perfectly groomed and dressed she can forget that part of her. That’s charm

the intimate revelations of young men, or at least the terms in which they express them, are usually plagiaristic and marred by obvious suppressions.

It's never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be.

Never walk near the bed; to a ghost your ankle is your most vulnerable part-once in bed, you're safe; he may lie around under the bed all night, but you're safe as daylight. If you still have doubts pull the blanket over your head.

Very few of the people who accentuate the futility of life remark the futility of themselves. Perhaps they think that in proclaiming the evil of living they somehow salvage their own worth from the ruin - but they don't, even you and I.

If that was true he must have felt that he had lost the old warm world, paid a high price for living too long with a single dream.