Too much virtue has a corrupting effect.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

I love being single. It's almost like being rich.

The character of Rosie is based on a woman who used to live in the same apartment building I lived in many years ago. She's taken on a life of her own, of course.

School was a source of great suffering to me, but once I learned to read, I disappeared into books, where I was a happy visitor to all the worlds that sprang full-blown from the printed page.

There is, apparently, some law of nature decreeing that all home construction must double in its projected cost and take four times longer than originally anticipated.

You never know which people will affect your life.