Nobody run off with her,” Roscoe said. "She just run off with herself, I guess.

For the past several centuries the bonding power of the family dinner table has been one of the few constants, and now it's binding no more. The potency of the media is now stronger than that of the family. The wonder is that families still exist at all, since the forces of modern life mainly all pull people away from a family centered way of life.

I think its a sickness to grieve too much for those who never cared a fig for you.

Books can accommodate the proximity of computers but it doesn't seem to work the other way around. Computers now literally drive out books from the place that should, by definition, be books' own home: the library.

I'm glad I've been wrong enough to keep in practice. . . You can't avoid it, you've got to learn to handle it. If you only come face to face with your own mistakes once or twice in your life it's bound to be extra painful. I face mine every day--that way they ain't usually much worse than a dry shave.

True maturity is only reached when a man realizes he has become a father figure to his girlfriends' boyfriend - and he accepts it

From him to the stars, in all directions, there was only silence and emptiness.