We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other..

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us..

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through..

Life is a zoo in a jungle..

A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after..

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character..

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us..

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork..

Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad..

People rarely do what they don't want to..

What baffles me is the comfort people find in the idea that somebody dealt this mess. Blind and meaningless chance seems to me so much more congenial….

Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy..

Sex in marriage is like medicine. Three times a day for the first week. Then once a day for another week. Then once every three or four days till the….

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults..

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums..

"You ought to be ashamed," a woman in an Easter bonnet told Stein. "Your race gave us our religion..." "From ancient polytheism, the belief in lots o….

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be..

The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back alive and eventually releases him again for another chance..

Mrs Thicknesse and I agreed that a business of his own was probably the only solution for him because he was obviously unemployable..

Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is..

I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'..