Nietzsche had a little one-liner on how to choose a wife. He said, ''Are you willing to have a conversation with this woman for the next forty years?'' That's how to pick a wife.

The Bible may be the Greatest Story Ever Told, but the most popular story you can ever tell is about a good-looking couple having a really swell time copulating outside wedlock, and having to quit for one reason or another while doing it is still a novelty.

Write to please just one person. If you open a window and make love to the world, so to speak, your story will get pneumonia.

Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!

Big, undreamed-of things — the people on the edge see them first.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.