The point was - he wasn't <i>acting</i>. It was as if he'd forgotten how! Jack still knew his lines, but he was out of character... Jack had <i>stopp… - John Irving

This is Marxism. It's leveling everything by decimating what works ... It's that vindictive 'We've suffered, and now we're going to take money from your kid and watch you squirm'... There's a minority which is an open target in this country which no one protects, and that's rich people.

people can’t, unhappily, invent their mooring posts, their lovers and their friends, anymore than they can invent their parents.

They all settled into being the kind of friends when they heard from each other.... or when they occasionally got together. And when they were not in touch, they did not think of one another.