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

Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the condition clears up.

He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.

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

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.