Today we live in a society suffering from ethical rickets.
Gossip is irresponsible communication.
I believe all literature started as gossip.
Golf is an expensive way to make yourself miserable.
Dad could charm a dog off a meat wagon.
England is an aquarium, not a nation.
The only good thing ever done by a committee was the King James version.
Monogamy is contrary to nature but necessary for the greater social good.
Armies are dependent on youthful male ignorance.
Youth moves out, leaving no forwarding address. No matter how you try, you can’t reach that person again or that place.
Tennis, imprisoned within fixed boundaries, a patch of an acre, a green rectangle, tries the human soul. A tennis court is like a coffin, only larger.
Divorce: fission after fusion.
No one remembers her beginnings. Mothers and aunts tell us about infancy and early childhood, hoping we won’t forget the past when they had total control over our lives and secretly praying that because of it, we’ll include them in our future.
Computer dating? It’s terrific if you’re a computer!
No government has the right to tell its citizens when or whom to love.
If critics want to help me, let them come sit next to me while I’m writing.
Content without style is propaganda or adolescence. Style without content is decadence.
When Mother died I was both freed and abandoned, as are we all at this profound juncture in our lives.
Novels, like human beings, usually have their beginnings in the dark.
Pain isn’t always the enemy.