Spring, summer, and fall fill us with hope; winter alone reminds us of the human condition.

Every now and then you run across radiantly attractive people and you're delighted to find they adore you, till you realize that they adore just about everybody - and that's what's made them radiantly attractive.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

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

I often pray, though I'm not really sure Anyone's listening; and I phrase it carefully, just in case He's literary.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.