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

I am all for people having their heart in the right place; but the right place for a heart is not inside the head.

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

American patriotism is generally something that amuses Europeans, I suppose because children look idiotic saluting the flag and because the constitution contains so many cracks through which the lawyers may creep.

Newish friends, if they get ghastly, can be weighed and found wanting, but you'd never do a thing like that to old ones; their terrible habits are just part of the universe.

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

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.