A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after |
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car for ever after |
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?" |
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. |
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse. |
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 |
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 |
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked. |
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us. |
I am not impressed by the Ivy League establishments. Of course they graduate the best -- it's all they'll take, leaving to others the problem of educating the country. They will give you an education the way the banks will give you money -- provided you can prove to their satisfaction that you don't need it. |
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork. |
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any. |
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school. |
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning |
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us. |