After forty years of marriage we still stood with broken swords in our hands.

Let this serve as an axiom to every lover: A woman who refuses lunch refuses everything.

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

if death becomes cheap it is the watcher, not the dying, who is poisoned.

When a man goes through six years training to be a doctor he will never be the same. He knows too much.

The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

An only child is never twelve.