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“If one can’t be a great artist or a great soldier, the next best thing is to be a great criminal.”
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
“You’re not sorry to go, of course. With people like us our home is where we are not,”
“I can’t drift—I want to be interested. I want to pull strings, even for somebody else, or be Princetonian chairman or Triangle president. I want to be admired, Kerry.”
If you want to be prominent, get out and try for something; if you don’t, just take it easy.”