Entertainment is a sacred pursuit when done well. When done well, it raises the quality of human life.

I said, “I need to hear something that’s going to save my life.” Re: Selecting songs from a jukebox.

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

As long as she was falling in love with me, I might as well start making her promises I didn't intend to keep.

It was nice standing out in the darkness, in the damp grass, with spring coming on and a feeling in my heart of imminent disaster.

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.

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