College wasn't like the real world. In the real world people dropped names based on their renown. In college, people dropped names based on their obscurity.

I know that attaching memories to books may be going out of the world, but while it lasts, it's a strong record of your life.

They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

it's amazing what you can get used to.

To start with, look at all the books.

There is a small window of opportunity for freckled girls to tan.

We felt the imprisonment of being a girl, the way it made your mind active and dreamy, and how you ended up knowing which colors went together. We knew that the girls were our twins, that we all existed in space like animals with identical skins, and that they knew everything about us though we couldn’t fathom them at all. We knew, finally, that the girls were really women in disguise, that they understood love and even death, and that our job was merely to create the noise that seemed to fascinate them.