"Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die."

"He and Marilyn were lovers, but this was never said in so many words. Explicitness about one’s romantic arrangements had apparently been deemed gauche. In my middle-class teen-age world, the whole app…"

"As the visit of one we love makes the whole day pleasant, so is it illumined and made fair by a brave and beautiful thought."

"You must handle a little more firmly, and the time has come for unflinching and resolute action. For my part, I would not remain a member of a Liberal Cabinet one hour unless I knew that the Cabinet h…"

"Looking at them, it does not seem as though even progress in intellect, slow as that also is, made the pace very much more rapid. When we look at those whose intellect is scarcely developed, they seem…"