Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

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

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

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.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.