maturity ... is letting things happen.

In former days, everyone found the assumption of innocence so easy; today we find fatally easy the assumption of guilt.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

Odd, the years it took to learn one simple fact: that the prize just ahead, the next job, publication, love affair, marriage always seemed to hold the key to satisfaction but never, in the longer run, sufficed.

The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.