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

[On Malcolm Muggeridge:] He thinks he was knocked off his horse by God, like St. Paul on the road to Damascus. His critics think he simply fell off it from old age.

The disease is painless; it's the cure that hurts.

It beats me how Freud could say "What do women want?" as if we all must want the same 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.

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.

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.