Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.

Quote by Peter De Vries

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

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

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he...

My father hated radio and could not wait for television to be invented so he...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to...

I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to...

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

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

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.

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

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

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

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

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we...

We must love one another, yes, yes, that's all true enough, but nothing says we...

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

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

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

We all learn by experience but some of us have to go to summer school.

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

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

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

Pain is the question mark turned like a fishhook in the human heart.

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

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

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

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

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

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine...

Whatever you do, don't do it

Whatever you do, don't do it

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which...

Woman must not accept; she must challenge. She must not be awed by that which...