That's why we love disaster, Harry sees it, puts us back in touch with guilt and sends us crawling back to God - John Updike

I moved to New England partly because it has a real literary past. The ghosts of Hawthorne and Melville still sit on those green hills. The worship of Mammon is also somewhat lessened there by the spirit of irony. I don't get hay fever in New England either.

Her hair had been going gray as long as he could remember; she bundled it behind in a bun held with hairpins that he frequently found on the floor when he lived boyishly close to the carpet.

[Harry, to Nelson] "Don't forget, there's a Depression coming."