The knives of jealousy are honed on details.
They say you cannot make a noise to annoy yourself.
When one has children one has no privacy. They take it for granted that what is yours is theirs, personal things and the secrets of your heart, as well as possessions.
Ten thousand years of civilization shed in an instant when you put a woman behind the wheel of a car.
Nobody really lives in the present.
I get a lot of letters from people. They say "I want to be a writer. What should I do?" I tell them to stop writing to me and to get on with it.