George feels that, even if all this double talk hasn't brought them any closer to understanding each other, the not-understanding, the readiness to r… - Christopher Isherwood

Oh, I know you. You're soft, like most men. You make up romances about people instead of seeing them as they are.

For other people, I can't speak - but, personally, I haven't gotten wise on anything. Certainly, I've been through this and that; and when it happens again, I say to myself, Here it is again. But that doesn't seem to help me. In my opinion, I, personally, have gotten steadily sillier and sillier - and that's a fact.

Lois and Alexander are by far the most beautiful creatures in the class; their beauty is like the beauty of plants, seemingly untroubled by vanity, anxiety or effort.