I love being a writer. What I can’t stand is the paperwork.

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.

How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to dismantle the universe star by star, like a treeful of rotten...

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

Why is the awfulness of families such a popular reason for starting another?

I made a tentative conclusion. It seemed from all of this that uppermost among human joys is the negative one of restoration: not going to the stars, but learning that one may stay where one...

Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.

I love being a writer, what I can’t stand is the paperwork.

Let us hope…that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

The rich aren’t like us; they pay less taxes.

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

A suburban mother’s role is to deliver children obstetric-ally once, and by car forever after.

I write when I’m inspired, and I see to it that I’m inspired at nine o’clock every morning.

Let us hope, that a kind Providence will put a speedy end to the acts of God under which we have been laboring.

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

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