Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.

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

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.

No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.

If the pain wanders, do not waste your time with doctors.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.