We believed in our grandmother’s cooking more fervently than we believed in God.
I'd rather have two girls at seventeen than one at thirty-four.
Imitation is the sincerest form of television.
Television is a triumph of equipment over people, and the minds that control it are so small that you could put them in a gnat's navel with room left over for two caraway seeds and an agent's heart.
He dreamed he was eating shredded wheat and woke up to find the mattress half gone.
I can't understand why a person will take a year to write a novel when he can easily buy one for a few dollars.
It is probably not love that makes the world go around, but rather those mutually supportive alliances through which partners recognize their dependence on each other for the achievement of shared and private goals.
I no longer want it all, just some comfort and some sex and some minor love.
If a building makes us light up, it is not because we see order; any row of file cabinets is ordered. What we recognize and love is the same kind of pattern we see in every face, the pattern of our own life form. The same principles apply to buildings that apply to mollusks, birds or trees. Architecture is the play of patterns derived from nature and ourselves.
Silence propagates itself, and the longer talk has been suspended, the more difficult it is to find anything to say.
If a western is a good western, it gives you a sense of that world and some of the qualities those men had; their comradeship, loyalty, and physical courage.