“Anyway, I don't trust those people who poke around sad people's minds and tell them how interesting it all is up there. It's not interesting.”

“Id never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“I had hard feelings around the holidays, the one time of year I couldnt help but fall prey to the canned self-pity Christmas prescribes.”

“I’d never heard my parents make love. If they made love, they did it silently, like bank robbers, like surgeons.”

“...I do come home at Christmas. We all do, or we all should. We all come home, or ought to come home, for a short holiday - the longer, the better - from the great boarding-school, where we are for...”

“He went to the church, and walked about the streets, and watched the people hurrying to and for, and patted the children on the head, and questioned beggars, and looked down into the kitchens of ho...”

“The Christmas presents once opened are Not So Much Fun as they were while we were in the process of examining, lifting, shaking, thinking about, and opening them. Three hundred sixty-five days late...”