Husbands and wives generally understand when opposition will be vain.

What I've always tried to find in my books are points at which the private lives of the characters, and also my own, intersect with the public life of the culture.

If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.

In the West, especially after World War II, the government came to be seen as so successful that it could fulfill all the obligations that in less modern societies are fulfilled by the family.

God is not so wary as we, else He would give us no friends, lest we forget Him! The charms of the heaven in the bush are superseded, I fear, by the heaven in the hand, occasionally.