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

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.

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.

From a commercial point of view, if Christmas did not exist it would be necessary to invent it.

Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.

I yield to no one in my admiration for the office as a social center, but it's no place actually to get any work done.

A food is not necessarily essential just because your child hates it.