Sometimes We Have To Be Judged By

It's No Good Looking To Writers For Definitions Of What Constitutes Proper Writing, Because You Will Drive Yourself Crazy, And You Won't Find Anything That You Can Build Into A Coherent Whole.

If You Really Wanted To Mess Me Up, You Should Have Got To Me Earlier.

My Friends Don't Seem To Be Friends At All But People Whose Phone Numbers I Haven't Lost.

You Just Have To Smile And Take It, Otherwise It Would Drive You Mad.

I Used To Believe, Although I Don't Now, That Growing And Growing Up Are Analogous, That Both Are Inevitable And Uncontrollable Processes. Now It Seems To Me That Growing Up Is Governed By The Will, That One Can Choose To Become An Adult, But Only At Given Moments. These Moments Come Along Fairly Infrequently -during Crises In Relationships, For Example, Or When One Has Been Given The Chance To Start Afresh Somewhere- And One Can Ignore Them Or Seize Them.