A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.

Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.

We are not primarily put on this earth to see through one another, but to see one another through.

The difficulty with marriage is that we fall in love with a personality, but must live with a character.

Murals in restaurants are on a par with the food in museums.

The rich aren't like us, they pay less taxes.

The tuba is certainly the most intestinal of instruments, the very lower bowel of music.

The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.

The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.

There are times when parenthood seems nothing more than feeding the hand that bites you.

The murals in restaurants are on par with the food in museums.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we have to like each other.

When I can no longer bear to think of the victims of broken homes, I begin to think of the victims of intact ones.

Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselves arrive? The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

Words fashioned with somewhat over precise diction are like shapes turned out by a cookie cutter.