No one ever found wisdom without also being a fool. Writers, alas, have to be fools in public, while the rest of the human race can cover its tracks.
Young people never believe in the possibility of their own deaths. That's one reason old men can send them to war.
Life has no plot. It is by far more interesting than anything you can say about it.
Women are the only exploited group in history to have been idealized into powerlessness.
They keep saying the right person will come along. I think mine got hit by a truck.
At fifty the madwoman in the attic breaks loose, stomps down the stairs, and sets fire to the house. She won't be imprisoned anymore.