The know-nothings are, unfortunately, seldom the do-nothings.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

The hardest-learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

My doctor is nice; every time I see him, I'm ashamed of what I think of doctors in general.

God and the devil lose to a common enemy: inertia.

I've been hiding from God, and I'm appalled to find how easy it is.