You don't have to lay an egg to know if it tastes good.

What's the point of being young if you're not going to make new things, I wonder?

Why not have your first baby at sixty, when your husband is already dead and your career is over? Then you can really devote yourself to it.

If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

Take away a man's actual sense of manhood - which is conventionally based on the ability to work, to earn money, to be self-sufficient, to provide for children - and you've got to give them something else. And they did.

Japanese food is very pretty and undoubtedly a suitable cuisine in Japan, which is largely populated by people of below average size. Hostesses hell-bent on serving such food to occidentals would be well advised to supplement it with something more substantial and to keep in mind that almost everybody likes french fries.

Whenever I am doing anything else, which is most of the time, even if it is not something like robbing a bank, I feel felonious. Writing is what I'm supposed to be doing.