People are either attracted to the unseemly or disapproving of it, or both; yet we try to sound superior to the unseemly by pretending to be amused by it or indifferent to it.

Half my life is an act of revision; more than half the act is performed with small changes.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone all your life and never quite be friends.

You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.

Most places we leave in childhood grow less, not more, fancy.