“Life is short, have dessert first.”

“... to have a lover and friend in one was the best love of all.”

“She preferred keeping her mouth shut and appearing a fool to opening it and removing the doubt.”

“One of the chief paradoxes of our culture [is] that the welfare of its children, its _future_, is placed almost exclusively in the hands of people of low status, a class it holds in contempt.”

“Life is short, have dessert first.”

“I was not going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life reduced to a short story. I was going to Honolulu because I wanted to see life expanded to a novel, and I still do.”

“Life is short. Eat dessert first. ”