Two people making love, she once said, are like one drowned person resuscitating the other.

If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

The first divorce in the world may have been a tragedy, but the hundred-millionth is not necessarily one.

Aphorisms are bad for novels. They stick in the reader's teeth.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.