as all women know, there are really no men at all. There are grown-up boys, and middle-aged boys, and elderly boys, and even sometimes very old boys. But the essential difference is simply exterior. Your man is always a boy.

Of one thing the reader can be certain: the more easily anything reads, the harder it has been to write.

I had a vision ... of being found on the pavement by some passerby, with a small punctuation mark ending my sentence of life.

I began to feel that if religion was either an illusion or a revelation, it was simpler to accept it as an illusion.

Young Doctor Arden was gong through the process of reorienting himself after a night's sleep.

because we are always staring at the stars, we learn the shortness of our arms.

it's been my experience that the first few days of married life women are blind because they want to be and after that because they have to be.