Sin has always been an ugly word, but it has been made so in a new sense over the last half-century. It has been made not only ugly but pass?. People are no longer sinful, they are only immature or underprivileged or frightened or, more particularly, sick.

Scratch any father, you find / Someone chock-full of qualms and romantic terrors, / Believing change is a threat.

suffering is as necessary to entertaining as vermouth is to a Martini - a small but vital ingredient.

Time is the thief you cannot banish.

Say what you will, making a marriage work is a woman's business.

Wherever conversation's flowing, / Why must I feel it falls on me / To keep things going?

Meek-eyed parents hasten down the ramps To greet their offspring, terrible from camps.