“There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.”

“A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.”

“Our strenght is often composed of the weakness we're damned if we're going to show.”

“A successful marriage requires falling in love many times -- always with the same person.”

“Some women love only what they can hold in their arms; others, only what they can't.”

“Life marks us all down, so it's just as well that we start out by overpricing ourselves.”

“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”