Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

I think people love each other a little more than they hate each other ... Love has a slim hold on the human corporation, like fifty-one per cent, but it's enough.

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one is.