He was a thoroughly bad hat, then, but that was the kind, of course, that nice women broke their hearts over. - Hannah Arendt

I have sometimes thought that Catholicism is a religion not suited to the laity, or not suited, at any rate, to the American laity, in whom it seems to bring out some of the worst traits in human nature and to lend them a sort of sanctification.

She felt really quite unequal to the tedious process of reconciliation which, in view of the fact that she was sorry, seemed to her highly unnecessary, like some legal routine or the difficulty of getting passports. Her interest in expiation quickly vanished in the face of its actuality.

It was the cocktail hour in Priss’s room at New York Hospital — terribly gay.