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He kissed her and killed her then dumped her body in the river.
An easy-going husband is the one indispensable comfort of life.
Cowardice, when done correctly, can be its own kind of bravery.
If the gods have no sense of humor they must weep a great deal.
There's something every woman wants, and that's a man to blame.
As for the kind of writer I am? I am who I don't pretend to be.
Nobody can afford to appear more pleasant than they really are!
There are few things in the world as dangerous as sleepwalkers.
The thing to do is to exploit the meaning of the life you have.
I belonged in Idle Valley like a pearl onion on a banana split.
Man's usual routine is to work and to dream and work and dream.
Answers? Forget answers. The spectacle is all in the questions.
A happy man has no past, while an unhappy man has nothing else.
Every man has a right to keep his own sentiments if he pleases.
You should never, never doubt something that no one is sure of.
When you're writing, it's rather like going on a very long walk
Authority is permission to spew platitudes to people below you.
Funny thing about faith ... it goes a lot faster than it comes.
We say, 'The market plummets,' like it's some roaring creature.
Truth in spirit, not truth to the letter, is the true veracity.
If I am the chief of sinners, I am the chief of sufferers also.
More people are flattered into virtue than bullied out of vice.
There are three sorts of lawyers - able, unable and lamentable.
I'm not much crazier than anybody else, but I'm not much saner.
No one needs a word processor if he has an efficient secretary.
Men and women existed before creeds; love is the only religion.
Casting your voice out into the future is very beautiful to me.
Liberate yourself, because no one else is going to liberate you
Prophet Mohammed would have no objection to The Satanic Verses.
To have been always what I am - and so changed from what I was.
That desert of loneliness and recrimination that men call love.
Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
You have to have coalitions in order to make change in America.
One keeps forgetting old age up to the very brink of the grave.
I have faith in Faith, I have reverence for all true Reverence.
Libraries are sexual dream factories. The langour brings it on.
The old story is true:Women have to be less emotional than men.
There are now some mountains that my brain can no longer climb.
The inside jokes weren't jokes anymore. they had become stories
No one writes a great book every time out, or even a good book.
My impression is that the people who say most understand least.
When I die, I hope to think I have annoyed a great many people.
One need not write in a diary what one is to remember for ever.
I think powerful women don't care whether or not they're liked.
I want it to be better than okay. You deserve better than okay.
I am not good at noticing when I'm happy, except in retrospect.
My night stand is permanently jammed with books I want to read.
I really, really missed the Pennsylvania countryside and hills.
Those who claim to have had happy lives seem to be silly fools.