If only I had a wife!" I used to think, "who could stay home and keep the children happy, why I could support six of them. A cinch.

we like fixed rules because that ends thinking and we can rest. But there is no resting place down here.

Since you are like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable.

We are too ready (women especially) not to stand by what we have said or done.

It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

You know, I have come to think listening is love, that's what it really is.

Of course, in fairness, I must remind you of this: that we writers are the most lily-livered of all craftsmen. We expect more, for the most peewee efforts, than any other people.