It's awesome to realize that if your greatest potential talent is for riding a bicycle upside down on a high wire, you will somehow discover it.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

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

Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.