When you realize someone is trying to hurt you, it hurts less." "Unless you love them.

Did you ever notice how easy it is to forgive a person any number of faults for one endearing characteristic, for a certain style, or some commitment to life - while someone with many good qualities is insupportable for a single defect if it happens to be a boring one?

The sweetness that all longed for night and day. Some tragedy might be idly guessed at-loss or illness. She had the luminosity of those about to die.

Americans' great and secret fear is that America may turn out to be a phenomenon rather than a civilization.

Children seldom have a proper sense of their own tragedy, discounting and keeping hidden the true horrors of their short lives, humbly imagining real calamity to be some prestigious drama of the grown-up world.

I wasn't convinced a shop girl would know the word 'Oedipal.

It's nervous work. The state you need to write in is the state that others are paying large sums of money to get rid of.