Take your life in your own hands, and what happens? A terrible thing: no one to blame.

My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher." - Socrates (470-399 B.C.) "Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't

A baby's a full time job for three adults. Nobody tells you that when you're pregnant, or you'd probably jump off a bridge. Nobody tells you how all-consuming it is to be a mother-how reading goes out the window and thinking too.

A Soul is partly given, partly wrought; remember always that you are the Maker of your own Soul.

I prefer to work in the morning. I get up now at five in the morning. In the morning is when I feel freshest.

I've become more conservative about sex as I've gotten older.

How could one create life with someone who represented death?