His sister-in-law Sylvia represented for him unceasing, unsleeping activities of a fantastic kind. - Ford Madox Ford

Pride and reserve are not the only things in life; perhaps they are not even the best things. But if they happen to be your particular virtues you will go all to pieces if you let them go.

But upon my word, I don't know how we put in our time. How does one put in one's time? How is it possible to have achieved nine years and to have nothing whatever to show for it?

Why can't people have what they want? The things were all there to content everybody; yet everybody has the wrong thing.