There's nowhere that life feels more eternal, your dimwit youth more important, than Paris.

If you look for endings you can always find one, but I truly felt as if I had used up the last of my youth, if youth is that finite stage of life when it all feels expeditionary, inexact.

When you're finally a grown-up, one of the things you find is that there are no grown-ups.

Like everyone I slipped into adulthood like a delinquent through the back door.