a perfectly managed Christmas correct in every detail is, like basted inside seams and letters answered by return, a sure sign of someone who hasn't enough to do.

The main purpose of children's parties is to remind you that there are children more awful than your own.

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.

I wouldn't say when you've seen one Western you've seen the lot; but when you've seen the lot you get the feeling you've seen one.

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

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.

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