Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

If you can tell anyone about it, it's not the worst thing you ever did.

Women are the right age for just a few years; men, for most of their lives.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

The excesses of love soon pass, but its insufficiencies torment us forever.