One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.
Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.
It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.
You can't truthfully explain your smallest action without fully revealing your character.
Everybody can write; writers can't do anything else.
We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.