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.

An early-rising man is a good spouse but a bad husband.

The problem with marriage is that it ends every night after making love, and it must be rebuilt every morning before breakfast.

No, not rich. I am a poor man with money, which is not the same thing.

I don't know who said that novelists read the novels of others only to figure out how they are written. I believe it's true. We aren't satisfied with the secrets exposed on the surface of the page: we turn the book around to find the seams.