On one thing professionals and amateurs agree: mothers can't win.

When nothing is sure, everything is possible.

How unjust life is, to make physical charm so immediately apparent or absent, when one can get away with vices untold for ever.

Family life itself, that safest, most traditional, most approved of female choices, is not a sanctuary: It is, perpetually, a dangerous place.

Scenery can be a violent stimulant.

Lord knows what incommunicable small terrors infants go through, unknown to all.

Novels, since the birth of the genre, have been full of rejected, seduced, and abandoned maidens, whose proper fate is to die.

The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.

The women are always vixens or monsters. They can't just be normal people in the book.

Nothing fails like failure

Why can't people be both flexible and efficient?

Marriage was not the combination of two entities into one

The ocean is both my mistress and my lover. How else can I explain her salty kiss that is still on my lips.

Isn't it wonderful when people do that, when you put all your faith in their being selfish and self -centered and not giving a damn and it turns out, all that time, you were wrong?

The Saw Is Family is a great site. You can quote me on that.

There cannot be any true leisure until all the world possesses it equally.

I get recognized somewhere in between like local meteorologist and national meteorologist.

I can't prove that God doesn't exist, but I'd much rather live in a universe without one.

Down the road someone is practicing scales, The notes like little fishes vanish with a wink of tails

I was determined to achieve the total freedom that our history lessons taught us we were entitled to, no matter what the sacrifice.

Being the companion of the folk of this world is fire. There must be an Abraham if the fire is not going to burn [you].