“If you are an adolescent, here is the trick to being neither quite a nerd nor quite a jock: be no one.It is easier than you think.”
“You see, however, which is called the Court of Rome, and which neither you nor any man can deny to be more corrupt than any Babylon or Sodom, and quite, as I believe, of a lost, desperate and hopeless impiety.”
“Aye, you're neither one thing nor yet quite t'other. Pity, but there 'tis.”
“the world is neither meaningful, nor absurd. it quite simply is, and that, in any case, is what is so remarkable about it.”
“Adolescence is a skin we never quite shed.”
“If volition is bound to social imperatives, as William James believed, and it's therefore easier to go to war than it is to quit smoking, one could say that Liz Norton was a woman who found it easier to quit smoking than to go to war.”