We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

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

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?

I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it.

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.