No one can understand love who has not experienced infatuation. And no one can understand infatuation, no matter how many times he has experienced it.
If an article is attractive, or useful, or inexpensive, they’ll stop making it tomorrow; if it’s all three, they stopped making it yesterday.
All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive – perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Mumps, measles, and puppy love are terrible after twenty.
A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.
We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.
In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.
We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty.
Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers – and men, their fathers – all it usually means is that they’ve decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.
If you have to do it every day, for God’s sake learn to do it well.
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he’s always apologizing, his children are monsters.
Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don’t, you don’t.
Don’t look for God where He is needed most; if you didn’t bring Him there, He isn’t there.
I’ve been hiding from God, and I’m appalled to find how easy it is.
Whenever we safely land in a plane, we promise God a little something.