Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.
How tired God must be of guilt and loneliness, for that is all we ever bring to Him.
Fields can lie fallow but we can't; we have less time.
A woman asks little of love: only that she be able to feel like a heroine.
Men gossip less than women, but mean it.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.