In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

It's hard to feel middle-aged, because how can you tell how long you are going to live?

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.