What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

I paraphrase Aristotle: If you want to be comical, write about people to whom the audience can feel superior; if you want to be tragical, write about at least one person to whom the audience is bound to feel inferior, and no fair having human problems solved by dumb luck or heavenly intervention.

What a bummer it is to be a human being.

Human beings will be happier - not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when they find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.

You say what you have to say. But you have to learn to say it in such a way that the reader can see what you mean.

Unannounced changes in life's itinerary are like dancing lessons from God.

She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.