"I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better."

"Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted."

We in middle age require adventure.

"Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw."

"That's the point of quotations, you know: one can use another's words to be insulting."