I know what I wish Ralph Nader would investigate next. Marriage. It's not safe, it's not safe at all.

I think success has no rules, but you can learn a great deal from failure.

You can't sleep until noon with the proper elan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three (parties don't count).

It has been explained to me that toys are packaged in shards, to be assembled by the middle-aged and butter-fingered, because this makes it easier for the shippers. ... If they had to spend hours and hours putting handlebars onto bicycles ... they would repent their ways and deliver something that looked like a rocking horse and not like the result of a small street accident.

Now the thing about having a baby - and I can't be the first person to have noticed this - is that thereafter you have it.

If you have formed the habit of checking on every new diet that comes along, you will find that, mercifully, they all blur together, leaving you with only one definite piece of information: french-fried potatoes are out.

I thought we talked things out!' 'Yes, and you listened very carefully to every word you had to say.