"I never felt that I had been a part of anything, or that I had belonged anywhere."

"I couldn't forgive him or like him, but I saw that what he had done was, to him, not only important but right. He was a man of his time, and he had the defects of his time, as well as the virtues."

"There are all kinds of love in this world, but never the same love twice."

"It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won't save us any more than love did."

"I'm not a fan of happy people. I'm a fan of real people."