There is no knowledge like the bitter knowledge of old loves.

But you can’t very well lug an encyclopedia around hotels. Fortunately, I did have my flask.

There had never been anyone at all to whom she came first.

Now that we can buy anything we want we seem to read detective stories.

The last days before graduation are bad enough, God knows--out of the womb you go, ready or not. The halls rang with the laughter of the girls who were going to be brides in the next week (and widows shortly after)...

I've asked around and haven't found a B.A. yet who doesn't still have nightmares (and I don't speak figuratively) about not being able to find the room where the exam is to be given or about realizing at the last moment that he has not once attended the course.