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

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow; they can be put off forever, or not at all

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

Confession is good for the conscience, but it usually bypasses the soul.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.