Sometimes the characters develop almost without your knowing it. You find them doing things you hadn't planned on, and then I have to go back to page 42 and fix things. I'm not recommending it as a way to write. It's very sloppy, but it works for me.

A fondness for martyrdom, especially of the verbal variety, is common to the young.

Marriage, in my view, should be a balanced stalemate between equal adversaries.

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

When one is striding bravely into the future one cannot watch one's footing.

Exaggeration is the cheapest form of humor.

There is nothing sadder than the cheerful letters of the dead, expressing hopes that were never fulfilled, ambitions that were never achieved, dreams cut off before they could come to fruition.