When she was a girl nobody had money but people had dreams. - John Updike

I'm willing to show good taste, if I can, in somebody else's living room, but our reading life is too short for a writer to be in any way polite. Since his words enter into another's brain in silence and intimacy, he should be as honest and explicit as we are with ourselves.

[Nelson] "...I get none of the things a man's supposed to get from a wife."

[Nelson, to Harry] "...I keep feeling hassled."