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

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

The woman just ahead of you at the supermarket checkout has all the delectable groceries you didn't even know they carried.

Make a habit of telling the truth, or make a habit of lying: to decide each case on its own merits is exhausting, and hardly ever worth it.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.