Normal Is Absolutely My Least Favorite Word.

Male Friends Do Not Always Face Each Other; They Stand Side By Side, Facing The World.

The Married Are Those Who Have Taken The Terrible Risk Of Intimacy And, Having Taken It, Know Life Without Intimacy To Be Impossible.

Why Do Long Marriages Occasionally Endow Their Inhabitants With A Rare Kind Of Equilibrium Otherwise Almost Unknown In Human Relations? My Guess Is That The Value Of The Moment Has At Last Overshadowed The Long History Of Resentments, Betrayals, And Boredom.

Odd, The Years It Took To Learn One Simple Fact: That The Prize Just Ahead, The Next Job, Publication, Love Affair, Marriage Always Seemed To Hold The Key To Satisfaction But Never, In The Longer Run, Sufficed.

Today's Shocks Are Tomorrow's Conventions.