“Life is a zoo in a jungle”

“He resented such questions as people do who have thought a great deal about them. The superficial and slipshod have ready answers, but those looking this complex life straight in the eye acquire a wealth of perception so composed of delicately balanced contradictions that they dread, or resent, the call to couch any part of it in a bland generalization. The vanity (if not outrage) of trying to cage this dance of atoms in a single definition may give the weariness of age with the cry of youth for answers the appearance of boredom.”

“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 [parenthood] is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.”

“Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.”

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

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