The truth of some promises is not as important as whether or not you can believe in them, with all your heart.

Every time another review comes out I let out a deep breath.

I love Richard Yates, his work, and the novel, Revolutionary Road. It's a devastating novel.

Dr. Roboy, in Litvak's measured view, had a vice common to believers: He was all strategy and no tactics. He was prone to move for the sake of moving, too focused on the goal to bother with the intervening sequence.

When some drunken fool asked if she was a lesbian, she would say, 'In everything but sexual preference.

... But he believed that every great love was in some measure a terrible mistake.

Misogyny comes naturally to a young man in his late teens; it is a function of the powerful homosocial impulses that flower along Fraternity Row, that drove the mod movements of the middle sixties and late seventies, that lie at the heart of every rock band formed by men of that age.