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

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

The idea of a Supreme Being who creates a world in which one creature is designed to eat another in order to subsist, and then pass a law saying, "Thou shalt not kill," is so monstrously, immeasurably, bottomlessly absurd that I am at a loss to understand how mankind has entertained or given it house room all this long.

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

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track.

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