He had reached an age where death no longer has the quality of ghastly surprise

“Her grey, sun-strained eyes stared straight ahead, but she had deliberately shi…”

“In fact to write (This Side of Paradise) took three months; to conceive it-- th…”

“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning l…”

“Frequently I had feigned sleep, preoccupation, or a hostile levity when I reali…”