...how false the most profound book turns out to be when applied to life.

It's terrible to be young. It's terrible. Terrible

Then Ben wailed again, hopeless and prolonged. It was nothing. Just sound. It might have been all time and injustice and sorrow become vocal for an instant by a conjunction of planets.

A gentleman can live through anything.

I am not one of those women who can stand things.

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

It wasn't until the Nobel Prize that they really thawed out. They couldn't understand my books, but they could understand $30,000.