The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe. |
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. |
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults. |
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you |
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you |
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through |
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through |
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. |
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other. It may be the very recognition of all men as our brothers that accounts for the sibling rivalry, and even enmity, we have toward so many of them. |
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss that reduced my bones to rubber and my brain to gruel. |
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones. |
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults |
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter. |
You can make a sordid thing sound like a brilliant drawing-room comedy. Probably a fear we have of facing up to the real issues. Could you say we were guilty of Noel Cowardice? |