Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?.

How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?.

When I see a paragraph shrinking under my eyes like a strip of bacon in a skillet, I know I'm on the right track..

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars,….

Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy..

"You don't believe in God," I said to Stein. "God is a word banging around in the human nervous system. He exists about as much as Santa Claus." "San….

There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for..

I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability.

This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection..

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too..

Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in pulsations of eighty billion years has a right to ask. What's in it for me?.

All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate..

Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister..

If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist..

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you..

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe..

What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature..

I tried to write worse but it was no good; my generalizations came out as before, each more exquisite than the last. I grew discouraged..

Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful..

The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own..

Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked..