A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.
Necessity has the face of a dog.
Injections ... are the best thing ever invented for feeding doctors.
The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.
Justice ... limps along, but it gets there all the same.
Ultimately, literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you are working with reality, a material just as hard as wood.
He repeated until his dying day that there was no one with more common sense, no stonecutter more obstinate, no manager more lucid or dangerous, than a poet.
She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
The world must be all fucked up when men travel first class and literature goes as freight.
An early-rising man ... a good spouse but a bad husband.