Peter S. Prescott quotes:

Sociologists are those academic accountants who think that truth can be shaken from an abacus.

My advice is to run while you can.

Two things a novelist can do with a hat: Talk through it or pull a rabbit from it.

Let's hope the institution of marriage survives its detractors, for without it there would be no more adultery and without adultery two thirds of our novelists would stand in line for unemployment checks.

Many books today suggest that the mass of women lead lives of noisy desperation.