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Life is a zoo in a jungle.
Exercise is an unnatural act.
Are you pro- or anti-macassar?
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
People rarely do what they don't want to.
The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.
Marriage has driven more than one man to sex.
Man is vile, I know, but people are wonderful.
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
What people believe is a measure of what they suffer.
Look at it this way: Psychoanalysis is a permanent fad.
Try the Lamentations of Jeremiah. They always pick me up.
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
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.
We pay for security with boredom, for adventure with bother.
The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
Do you believe in astrology? -I don't even believe in astronomy.
Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.
What we are assigned to bear is in a sense a measure of our stature.
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Time heals nothing — which should make us the better able to minister.
This human nature is shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.
There are times when breakfast seems the one thing worth getting up for.
A politician is a man who can be verbose in fewer words than anyone else.
I wondered whether any woman could be happy with a man who says 'folderol'.
I suppose I shall marry eventually One does that, one drifts into stability
Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?
How do you expect mankind to be happy in pairs when it is miserable separately?
We know the human brain is a device to keep the ears from grating on one another.
Love's blindness consists oftener in seeing what is not there than in seeing what is.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he could hate that too.
All couples must bear the strain of getting acquainted, having been, up to then, merely intimate.
The writer can only explore the inner space of his characters by perceptively navigating his own.
Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.
We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.
If there's anything I hate it's the word humorist-I feel like countering with the word seriousist.
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.
We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.
Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.