I'm hopeful that people don't give up on marriage. When it works, it's a gift from God because you can't always have it work out the way you want.

Laughing at ourselves is possible when we are able to see humanity as it is - a little lower than the angels and at times only slightly higher than the apes.

Marriage - as its veterans know well - is the continuous process of getting used to things you hadn't expected.

His voice, the very sound of rolling eyes.

I am

If you want to conquer the stress, anger and illusion of life, live in the moment, enjoy your breathing, count your blessings.

When I'm writing fiction, I read nonfiction or biographies. Now I'm watching very old movies or old foreign films. I don't immerse myself in whatever's going on in whatever area I'm working in.

He that is hard to please, may get nothing in the end.

The superior man loves his soul; the inferior man loves his property.

Life without absorbing occupation is hell; joy consists in forgetting life.

When someone walks into my room and goes 'wow' at my record collection, at that moment I could actually hate music and just want to go sit in the garden.

Those who do not love me do not deserve to live.

I can always make things longer than I intend for them to be, but cutting things down is just brutal. It's like cutting off your fingers every time you lose a word.

If you deny any affinity with another person or kind of person, if you declare it to be wholly different from yourself