Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.

It is better to know some of the questions than all of the answers.

Humor is emotional chaos remembered in tranquility.

Mutual suspicions of mental inadequacy are common during the first year of any marriage.

I was seized by the stern hand of Compulsion, that dark, unreasonable Urge that impels women to clean house in the middle of the night.

The things we laugh at are awful while they are going on, but get funny when we look back. And other people laugh because they've been through it too. The closest thing to humor is tragedy.

The only rules comedy can tolerate are those of taste, and the only limitations those of libel.