If enough of us keep trying, we'll get someplace.

Human crises have a way of happening at inconvenient times.

Being alone is scary, but not as scary as feeling alone in a relationship.

In my life I had come to realize that when things were going very well indeed it was just the time to anticipate trouble. And, conversely, I learned from pleasant experience that at the most despairing crisis, when all looked sour beyond words, some delightful "break" was apt to lurk just around the corner.

One of my favorite phobias is that girls, especially those whose tastes aren't routine, often don't get a fair break... It has come down through the generations, an inheritance of age-old customs, which produced the corollary that women are bred to timidity.

The most effective way to do it, is to just do it.

There is so much that must be done in a civilized barbarism like war.