I just wish, when neither of us has written to my husband's mother, I didn't feel so much worse about it than he does.

In hell they will bore you, in heaven you will bore them.

Have you ever taken anything out of the clothes basket because it had become, relatively, the cleaner thing?

One reason you are stricken when your parents die is that the audience you've been aiming at all your life - shocking it, pleasing it - has suddenly left the theater.

It is a pity that so often the only way to treat girls like people seems to be to treat them like boys.

Find out what you like doing best, and get someone to pay you for it.

Americans, indeed, often seem to be so overwhelmed by their children that they'll do anything for them except stay married to the co-producer.