No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

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.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.