i was perhaps an egotist in youth, but i soon found it made me morbid to think too much about myself

“One autumn night, five years before, they had been walking down the street when…”

“Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, thr…”

“The notion of sitting down and conjuring up, not only words in which to clothe …”

“You and I have been happy; we haven't been happy just once, we've been happy a …”