For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better. - E. M. Forster

"Straight?" He trembled as he asked this supreme question.
"Scudder? A little too smart to be straight."

-while beyond the barrier Maurice wandered, the wrong words on his lips and the wrong desires in his heart, and his arms full of air.

Probable that I am now better than most people and as good as I ever shall be at this game, and can therefore get to know anyone I wish, provided I am not physically repellent. And perhaps this is why personal relationships no longer seem to me a serious branch of study.