People who truly love us can be divided into two categories: those who understand us, and those who forgive us our worst sins. Rarely do you find someone capable of both.

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.

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

You know people don't get better as we get older- we just get more of who we are.

Very often I'll find out at the end of a book what I put in at the beginning. A sort of process of elimination and discovery in one.

Kids own nothing. Everything is either promised, borrowed, longed for or exaggerated.

People are always waiting to be discovered.