Date of birth: 1910-02-27
Date of death: 1993-09-28
Quotes number: 30
Nationality: American
Profession: Novelist
A suburban mother's role is to deliver children obstetrically once, and by car forever after.
Celibacy is the worst form of self-abuse.
Confession is good for the soul only in the sense that a tweed coat is good for dandruff - it is a palliative rather than a remedy.
Everybody hates me because I'm so universally liked.
Gluttony is an emotional escape, a sign something is eating us.
I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
I wanted to be bored to death, as good a way to go as any.
I was thinking that we all learn by experience, but some of us have to go to summer school.
I write when I'm inspired, and I see to it that I'm inspired at nine o'clock every morning.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
