“Even the greatest stories can be summed up in a few paragraphs. What makes them so much longer, is all the time spent editing.”
“Kid, not everything in life can be summed up neatly in a paragraph. No book has all of the answers. Not even the really good ones. You have to find the answers yourself sometimes.”
“Emily Post's Etiquette is out again, this time in a new and an enlarged edition, and so the question of what to do with my evenings has been all fixed up for me.”
“So much of her time spent like this: dreaming up things to say and never quite saying them.”
“I must be honest. I can only read so many paragraphs of a New York Times story before I puke.”
“It was troubling that one of the few people she trusted was a man she spent so much time avoiding”