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A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, an...  
Anyone informed that the universe is expanding and contracting in puls...  
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.  
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.  
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.  
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in o...  
Life is a zoo in a jungle.  
Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.  
My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented...  
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.  
The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.   Marriage
The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personalit...   Marriage
The satirist shoots to kill while the humorist brings his prey back al...   Humor
The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very low...  
The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the c...  
The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that chi...  
We turned on one another deep, drowned gazes, and exchanged a kiss tha...  
When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I b...