Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

I can still hear my mother wailing over some new kitchen crisis, "Oh God," and my father answering cozily from the silo, "Were you calling me, dear?

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

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.