He had mourned each of those great trains as, one by one, they were pulled off the lines and left to rust in some yard, like old aristocrats, fading away; antique relics of times gone by.

The ones that hurt the most always say the least.

Marriage. Isn't it great? Each time you fall back in love with your [spouse] it gets better and better.

If you cage a wild thing, you can be sure it will die, but if you let it run free, nine times out of ten it will run back home.

I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.

That's what I'm living on now, honey, dreams, dreams of what I used to do.

It was a stretch to imagine that Barbara Walters might want to give it all up for Ed Couch, but Evelyn tried her hardest. Of course, even though she was not religious, it was a comfort to know that the Bible backed her up in being a doormat.