"A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person."
- Mignon McLaughlin
"There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write."
"An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought."
"What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want."
"Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding th..."
"Courage can't see around corners, but goes around them anyway."
"It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child—at least till you try to get him to do something."
"Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality."
"Most of us would rather risk a catastrophe than read the instructions."
"Love is often gentle, desire always a rage."