And I am interested in the fact that class is very much a factor in America, even though it's not supposed to be.

Bravest thing about people is how they go on loving mortal beings after finding out there's such a thing as dying.

She worded it a bit strongly, but I do find myself more and more struck by the differences between the sexes. To put it another way: All marriages are mixed marriages.

...he thought of dying as a kind of adventure, something new that he hadn't yet experienced. Like an unusual vacation trip.

The one ironclad rule is that I have to try. I have to walk into my writing room and pick up my pen every weekday morning

The Amateur Marriage grew out of the reflection that of all the opportunities to show differences in character, surely an unhappy marriage must be the richest.

I think I was born with the impression that what happened in books was much more reasonable, and interesting, and real, in some ways, than what happened in life.