They had never struggled, and only a struggle twists sentimentality and lust together into love.

One marvels why the middle classes still insist on so much discomfort for their children at such expense to themselves.

I'm painfully middle class.

It is the middle class which takes the country forward.

Bemoan being lower-middle-class and colored in a police state that protects only rich white people and movie stars of all races, though I can’t think of any Asian-American ones.

You're a domestic man, David. You feel hundreds of small affections all the time. They haunt every friendly pillow and comfortable chair like household gods. Together they add up to a great love, big enough to ignore this silly man who's hanging around your wife's skirts.