Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

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 love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.