How strange it is that life must be nearly over, before one fully learns to live!

If we could only use other folks' experience, this here world would be heaven in about three generations, but we're so constructed that we never believe fire'll burn till we poke our own fingers into it to see. Other folks' scars don't go no ways at all toward convincin' us.

I experienced the discomfort of those who have moved mentally, but are still clamped, physically, to the places they have moved from.

Marriage is the process by which a woman deprives herself of an escort.

It saves trouble to be conventional, for you're not always explaining things.

One of the most interesting things in the world to me is the vast difference between what people say they are going to do, and what they actually do.

[On marriage:] Someone once said that it was like a crowded church - those outside were endeavouring to get in, and those inside were making violent efforts to get out.