A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

The young are generally full of revolt, and are often pretty revolting about it.

The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.