“When the past is hard to explain, its best to concentrate on the future.”

“The easy joy and the joyful ease of sex with men, their easy-access genitalia, their uncomplicated inner lives”

“Lee explained to her that art for arts sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you cant be living a life driven by need and desire.”

“Peggy spent most of her time upstairs in the playroom, keeping him cleaned and fed. She was made to bring out the baby and accept praise for her work as if she were a being of a slightly lower soci...”

“He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.”

“Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.”

“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”

“The world is quiet here.”

“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”