“...to live out childhood fantasies as a grown-up was to court and wed and bed disaster.”

“The problem with growing up is that once you're grown up, the people who aren't grown up aren't fun anymore.”

“We have lived too long. The great days are past. ”

“It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost. ”

“The life I should be living had been mislaid through some clerical error by the cosmic bureaucracy.”

“When she looked back the whole thing had a queer, unreal feeling to it, but then again you often get a queer, unreal feeling when you stay up till four and get up at seven.”

“Being brave was easy when you would rather die than give up.”