The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.

If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.