A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

A successful marriage requires falling in love many times, always with the same person.

It's the most unhappy people who most fear change.

A hypochondriac is one who has a pill for everything except what ails him.

It's innocence when it charms us, ignorance when it doesn't.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

We lavish on animals the love we are afraid to show to people. They might not return it; or worse, they might.

In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.

We choose those we like; with those we love, we have no say in the matter.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.

The word communist, of course, has become a rallying cry for certain people here just as the word Jew was in Hitler's Germany, a way of arousing emotion without engendering thought.

I am not saying Rubin Carter was guilty. I am saying he was very likely guilty.

The unavoidable kiss, where the minty fresh death breath is sure to outlast his catastrophe.

I'm so disconnected from an indie-rock community that I am the hermit people used to guess I was.

I learned that people like my work because I praise things that others don't like.

How do you know yer alive if you don't hurt?

My husband is so cheap. On Christmas Eve, he fires one shot and tells the kids Santa committed suicide.

Canada is a vast and empty country.

Everything people did seemed so silly, because they only died in the end.

Ethical and cultural desegregation. It is a contradiction in terms to scream race pride and equality while at the same time spurning Negro teachers and self-association.