“We'd traveled, we'd been to lots of parties, lots of movies and concerts, we'd slept in. We'd done all those things that people with children seem to miss so passionately. We didn't want those things anymore. We wanted a baby.”

“We'd all mourn for a while, but at the end of the day we were a tough lot, and we'd survive.”

“Instead, we'd do what we always did, the only thing we'd ever been dependably stellar at: we'd read.”

“The world was in terrible shape, and I'm glad we stood up and said what we believed; but a lot of the time we'd say these beautiful things about justice and fairness and equality, but we weren't so nice to each other. We'd be jealous and we'd gossip, and we'd be moody and difficult and rude and inconsiderate. Why do I say 'we'? I mean I would be all that-- and if at the time I ever came near to knowing what I'd become, I'd dodge, I'd duck, I'd go on the offensive: the terrible Wall Street bankers. Lots of them were terrible-- and so were lots of us.”

“We owe a lot to Thomas Edison-if it wasn't for him, we'd be watching television by candlelight.”

“had no excuses for the things that we'd done, we were brave, we crazy, we were mostly young.”