The wind of change, whatever it is, blows most freely through an open mind.

Does anybody who gave up smoking to save a pound a week have a pound at the end of the week? Not on your life.

Children and zip fasteners do not respond to force ... except occasionally.

Why do born-again people so often make you wish they'd never been born the first time?

In our society mothers take the place elsewhere occupied by the Fates, the System, Negroes, Communism or Reactionary Imperialist Plots; mothers go on getting blamed until they're eighty, but shouldn't take it personally.

There's comfort to an awful old dressing-gown a pretty peignoir is powerless to provide, and aging bra elastic, is, I suspect, as near to liberation as most women ever get.

Spring makes everything look filthy.