Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

The neurotic doesn't know how to cope with his emotional bills; some he keeps paying over and over, others he never pays at all.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

Courage doesn't know what's around the corner, but goes around it anyway.