“How they chirped over their cups.”

“If you cling frantically to the good, how are you to find out what the good really is?”

“God, youth is a terrible time! So much feeling and so little notion of how to handle it!”

“How much more complicated life is than the attainment of a Ph.D. would lead one to believe!”

“You played it with great seriousness. And it is not such an uncommon game. Do you know Ibsen's poem -- To live it to do battle with trolls in the vaults of the heart and brain. To write: that is to sit in judgement over one's self."”

“You'll go far. How do I know? Because life is goosing you so hard you'll never stop climbing.”

“No action is ever lost - nothing we do is without result. It's obvious, of course, but how many people ever really believe it, or act as if it were so?”