a revolutionary marriage ... [is] one in which both partners have work at the center of their lives and must find a delicate balance that can support both together and each individually.

A dog is the only exercise machine you cannot decide to skip when you don't feel like it.

Once you are thought selfish, not only are you forgiven a life designed mainly to suit yourself, which in anyone else would appear monstrous, but if an impulse to generosity should by chance overpower you, you will get five times the credit of some poor selfless soul who has been oozing kindness for years.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.