Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

One cannot make up stories; one can only retell in new ways the stories one has already heard.

maturity ... is letting things happen.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

Ironically, women who acquire power are more likely to be criticized for it than are the men who have always had it.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.