Charm is the enchanted dart, light and subtle as a hummingbird. But it is deceptive in one thing: like a sense of humor, if you think you've got it, you probably haven't.

Life and death in a relationship depend on attitudes.

The way of surviving is to find meaning in suffering.

Marriage is the learning of someone else's habits.

I wonder if we climb to heaven over the ruins of many cherished schemes.

Plans can be like a winged horse, but their execution plods along pulling carts.

Books have always been to me like a kind of embalmed mind. The dead may be scattered, and who can find them, but their voices live in the library.