It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

To the as-yet-unborn, to all innocent wisps of undifferentiated nothingness: Watch out for life.

One thing I hate about school committees today is that they cut arts programs out of the curriculum because they say the arts aren't a way to make a living.

It's the writer's job to stage confrontations, so the characters will say surprising and revealing things, and educate and entertain us all.

What do men want? They want a lot of pals, and they wish that people wouldn't get so mad at them.

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.

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.