The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we are going to show.
We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.
Our strength is often composed of the weakness that we're damned if we're going to show.
We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.
Learning too soon our limitations, we never learn our powers.
It is important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them, and important to friendship that we are not.
Every society honours its live conformists and its dead troublemakers.
The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.
We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.
What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.
If you are brave too often people will come to expect it of you.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.
Most sermons sound to me like commercials - but I can't make out whether God is the Sponsor or the Product.
It's important to our friends to believe that we are unreservedly frank with them and important to friendship that we are not.
Youth is not enough. And love is not enough. And success is not enough. And, if we could achieve it, enough would not be enough.
When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one.
In the arithmetic of love one plus one equals everything and two minus one equals nothing.