The bonds of matrimony are like any other bonds - they mature slowly.
Peter De Vries.
“I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.”
“The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.”
“How I hate this world. I would like to tear it apart with my own two hands if I could. I would like to dismantle the universe star by star, like a treeful of rotten fruit. Nor do I believe in progr...”
“Stein resented the sedative power of religion, or rather the repose available to those blissfully ignorant that the medicament was a fictitious blank. In this exile from peace of mind to which his ...”
“Human nature is pretty shabby stuff, as you may know from introspection.”
“But I made an issue of the precise wording of the vows. I wanted liberalized ones, with no outmoded Pauline nonsense exacting from the bride the promise to 'obey' the groom. Here I put my foot down...”
“I'm very mature for my age, but I'm also innocent in a lot of ways.”
“Immature artists imitate. Mature artists steal.”
“Immature poets imitate mature poets steal. ”
“You like me not because I like you. I like you just because I like me.”
“Maybe the truth is I really want to like you instead.”
“If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.”