I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

When you don't know what to do, try something; if that doesn't work, try something else.

One of the nice things about our marriage, at least to my way of thinking, is that my wife and I no longer have to argue every thing through. We each know what the other will say, and so the saying becomes an unnecessary formality. No doubt some marriage counselor would explain to us that our problem is a failure to communicate, but to my way of thinking we've worked long and hard to achieve this silence, Lily's and mine, so fraught with mutual understanding.

I'm not an easy man. I can be an entertaining one, though it's been my experience that most people don't want to be entertained. They want to be comforted.

What if all everybody needed in the world was to be sure of one friend? What if you were the one, and you refused to say those simple words?

People who imagine themselves to be self-made seldom enjoy examining the process of manufacture in detail.

Who but an English professor would threaten to kill a duck a day and hold up a goose as an example?