If you are a success in life, there are places you must go and pay to be humiliated. It is an unwritten law that human beings must be tormented throughout their lives in one way or another. If you are fortunate enough to have risen to a social level where no one does it to you for free, then you must pay for the service.

Most men think they are good drivers. Most women think they are good in bed. They aren't.

For an adult, eating alone at McDonald's is admitting a kind of defeat.

Both young children and old people have a lot of time on their hands. That's probably why they get along so well.

The first great real intimacy between two people begins when secrets are told.

The Viennese wash everything. Where else in the world does the government hire public servants to wash public telephone booths and the glass over traffic lights? Every time I see someone doing these things, I smile like a child.

Fear pounds on the door to our heart demanding to be let in. Joy is modest and often comes into our lives like a shy person entering a room; it can take a while to even notice it's there.