Sometimes I write drunk and revise sober, and sometimes I write sober and revise drunk. But you have to have both elements in creation — the Apollonian and the Dionysian, or spontaneity and restraint, emotion and discipline.

We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.

We are nothing but a string of gut on a stick of bone riding this piece of astral soot for one piteous splinter of eternity.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

... it is a fact universally acknowledged that a husband is the most ridiculous thing on earth, except for a bachelor.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

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