She had accepted the limitations of her life. It was this anguish, this contentment which created her grace. - James Salter

England? The worst of all. You know, I do some business there, I have friends in England. Their flats are broken into constantly. The police come, they look around, they dust for fingerprints. Well, we know who it is, they say. Wonderful, who? The same ones who did it last time, they say.

ONE OF THE LAST GREAT REALIZATIONS is that life will not be what you dreamed.

I can't explain it. It's what turns you to powder, being ground between what you can't do and what you must do. You just turn to dust.