Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.

Before the mind snaps, or the heart breaks, it gather itself like a clock about to strike. It might even be said one pulls himself together to disintegrate.

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.

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.

We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.