Rather than waste precious time arguing, I went up and started serving my "sentence" without delay. It was usually about an hour for epigrams; somewhat longer for a paradox.

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.

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.

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

Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

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