Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.

It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help.

Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all.

A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.

Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.