We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

I can't read or sleep. Without hope or youth or money I sit constantly wishing I were dead.

Look closer and you'll see something extraordinary, mystifying, something real and true. We have never been what we seemed.

People are like almanacs, Bonnie - you never can find the information you're looking for, but the casual reading is well worth the trouble.

isn't it funny how danger makes people passionate?

“Everybody gives you belief for the asking,” she said to David, “and so few people give you anything more to believe in than your own belief—just not letting you down, that's all. It's so hard to find a person who accepts responsibilities beyond what you ask.' 'So easy to be loved - so hard to love.' David answered.

I don't want to live. I want to love first, and live incidentally.