The trouble with treating people as equals is that the first thing you know they may be doing the same thing to you.
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?
Exercise is an unnatural act.
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
Life is a zoo in a jungle.
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.