But I often think that so-called glamorous people are just very busy people.

Being reviewed is being condescended to by your inferiors.

Every American should be forced to live outside the United States for a year or two. Americans should be forced to see how ridiculous they appear to the rest of the world! They should listen to someone else's version of themselves--to anyone else's version! Every country knows more about America than Americans know about themselves! And Americans know absolutely nothing about any other country!

The powerful wind swept his hair away from his face; he leaned his chest into the wind, as if he stood on the deck of a ship heading into the wind, slicing through the waves of an ocean he’d not yet seen.

People only ask questions when they're ready to hear the answers.

I’m not afraid, but I’m very nervous.

Human sexuality makes farcical our most serious intentions.