Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.