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

“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and i…”

“It eluded us then, but that’s no matter—tomorrow we will run faster, stretch ou…”

“If you have anything to say, anything you feel nobody has ever said before, you…”

“Don't say 'wife.' I'm your mistress. Wife's such an ugly word. Your 'permanent …”