I have never believed that one should wait until one is inspired because I think the pleasures of not writing are so great that if you ever start indulging them you will never write again.

Now that I am sixty, I see why the idea of elder wisdom has passed from currency.

The first breath of adultery is the freest; after it, constraints aping marriage develop.

It is not difficult to deceive the first time, for the deceived possesses no antibodies; unvaccinated by suspicion, she overlooks lateness, accepts absurd excuses, permits the flimsiest patching to repair great rents in the quotidian.

I'm somewhat shy about the brutal facts of being a carnivore. I don't like meat to look like animals. I prefer it in the form of sausages, hamburger and meat loaf, far removed from the living thing.

Being a divorcee in a small town is a little like playing Monopoly; eventually you land on all the properties.

We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.