Let us not seek to make it less monstrous, for our own convenience, our own sense of beauty, lest, awakened in one unthinkable hour, we are embarrassed by the miracle, and crushed by remonstrance.

Children are not a zoo of entertainingly exotic creatures, but an array of mirrors in which the human predicament leaps out at us.

We do survive every moment, after all, except the last one.

Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.

It's a man's world, they say; but in its daily textures it is a world created by and for women.

Our tears fatten upon our memories of joy.

Russia is the only country of the world you can be homesick for while you're still in it.