Let us hope, I prayed, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.

I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.

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?

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

A hundred years ago Hester Prynne of The Scarlet Letter was given an A for adultery; today she would rate no better than a C-plus.

Sometimes loneliness makes the loudest noise.

Discouragement is a signal of the flesh and the tongue

Experience alone can give, even to the greatest talent, that confidence in having done all that could be done.

I longed to be a writer, always wanted to be a writer.

Let's face it: our lives are miserable, laborious, and short.

It's very difficult for people, because when you purify yourself with love you have to merge. Anything in the world is easier to merge than two egos.

I think we have to be very sensitive to our need to compete, moving forward, and a lot of that is tied to tax policy.

The fight against hunger and poverty is also predicated on the creation of a world order that accords priority to social and economic development.

To marry a fool is to be no fool.

Ground Zero mosque supporters, doesn't it stab you in the heart, as it does ours, throughout the heartland? Peaceful Muslims, please refudiate.