The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.