She just happened to feel like it. Wasn’t that after all, the only reason there was? Had she ever had a less selfish, more complicated reason for doing anything in her life?

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?

In avoiding specific goals he had avoided specific limitations. For the time being the world, life itself, could be his chosen field.

Never say anything that doesn't improve on silence.

Anybody's marriage might benefit from an occasional embargo on talk.

A man could rant and smash and grapple with the State Police, and still the sprinklers whirled at dusk on every lawn and the television droned in every living room.

Hard work, is the best medicine yet devised for all the ills of man- and of woman.