“The
problem with marriage is that it ends every night
after making love, and it must be rebuilt every
morning before breakfast.”
“Always remember
that the most important thing in a good marriage is
not happiness, but stability.”
“No, not rich. I
am a poor man with money, which is not the same
thing.”
“If God hadn't
rested on Sunday, He would have had time to finish
the world.”
“Between the
covers of the books that no one had ever read again,
in the old parchments damaged by dampness, a livid
flower had prospered, and in the air that had been
the purest and brightest in the house an unbearable
smell of rotten memories floated.”
“Fiction was
invented the day Jonas arrived home and told his
wife that he was three days late because he had been
swallowed by a whale.”
“A person doesn't
die when he should but when he can.”
“Ultimately,
literature is nothing but carpentry. With both you
are working with reality, a material just as hard as
wood.”
“An early-rising
man... a good spouse but a bad husband.”
“Justice. . .
limps along, but it gets there all the same.”
“A man knows he is
growing old because he begins to look like his
father.”
