We were young and had the arrogance of youth, nevertheless when you look at the issues we fought over, I think by and large we were right.

To him, money was like the toy bank notes in Monopoly: he wanted it, not for what it could buy, but because it was needed to play the game

Without books I would not have become a vivacious reader, and if you are not a reader you are not a writer.

The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth.

The wide world was changing, and she wanted a different place in it.

Not just wanted, but felt she deserved. If the world didn't owe her a living, as her mother repeatedly warned her, it owed her a break. She had a strong sense that a better, more exciting, more rewarding life than that which had been the lot of her parents and grandparents was hers by right. In this she was guilty of nothing more serious than the arrogance of youth, from which every generation suffers and by which it distinguishes itself from the preceding one.

the blessed London battle, which came as a slap to the face of the tyrannical, crusader British arrogance.