I wouldn’t have gone if he’d made me. But it was different, deciding myself. It made staying too easy. It took the…the rebelliousness out of it.’Peter nodded. ‘It’s easy to take the opposite path from...

There’s an enormous propaganda machine in this world,’ Peter said, ‘that tries to make people think love — real, earthy, sweaty love — is wrong. But how in the hell they expect to propagate the...

Life has always seemed to me like a restaurant,’ said Peter. ‘When you’re born, you come in and sit down…”Oh, my God,’ said Brenda.’…and they show you the menu,’ went on Peter, frowning at Brenda....

I thought the French were supposed to be so polite,” said Harriet indignantly.Maybe it can’t be proven statistically, but it’s a safe bet that any given American on his or her first trip to France...

Now listen,’ said George angrily, ‘I’ve been in a newspaper office all evening and I know better than you what’s going on.”Nonsense. If there’s one place in the world where nobody knows what’s going on,...

Harriet, to hide her excitement, had turned to the bookshelves in the corner between the windows and the fireplace. The books, untidily arranged, some standing, some piled on their sides, with newspapers and magazines wedged...