I was thirty. Before me stretched the portentous, menacing road of a new decade.

“I think it’s wonderful that we can kiss and forget, and when we can’t it’ll be …”

“in crowded rooms they would form words with their lips for each other's eyes”

“I learned a little of beauty - enough to know that it had nothing to do with tr…”

“And after reading Thoreau I felt how much I have lost by leaving nature out of …”