Negli anni più vulnerabili della giovinezza, mio padre mi diede un consiglio che non mi è più uscito di mente.

“Love is fragile -- she was thinking -- but perhaps the pieces are saved, the th…”

“Unlike Gatsby and Tom Buchanan I had no girl whose disembodied face floated alo…”

“If I knew words enough, I could write the longest love letter in the world and …”

“I began to like New York, the racy, adventurous feel of it at night and the sat…”