I was too absorbed to be responsive - F. Scott Fitzgerald

He did not understand all he had heard, but from his clandestine glimpse into the privacy of these two, with all the world that his short experience could conceive of at their feet, he had gathered that life for everybody was a struggle, sometimes magnificent from a distance, but always difficult and surprisingly simple and a little sad.

"You should have risen above it," I said smugly. "It's not a slam at you when people are rude — it's a slam at the people they've met before."

In two weeks it'll be the longest day in the year... Do you always watch for the longest day of the year and then miss it? I always watch for the longest day in the year and then miss it.