a great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

-F. Scott Fitzgerald.

as you get older it is harder to have heros, but it is sort of necessary.
-Ernest Hemingway.

i'm sick of not having the courage to be a nobody.
-J. D. Salinger

love is or ain't. thin love ain't love at all.
-Toni Morrison