When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

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.

The right time is any time that one is still so lucky as to have.

I returned from the West, and brought home in my nostrils and nerves that benumbing lethargy, imprudent hostility, and arrogant superiority with which the West viewed the fate of Eastern Europe.

Love is divinity of life.

It's nice to be liked, but it's better to be respected.

When you want to fool the world, tell the truth.

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good.

Love is not really blind- the bandage is never so tight but that it can peep.

Some people you speak to you speak into their heads. It's logical.

Abandonment to God is of more value than personal holiness!

All persons are puzzles until at last we find in some word or act the key to the man, to the woman; straightway all their past words and actions lie in light before us.