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

If you're a gifted flirt, talking about the price of eggs will do as well as any other subject.

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

Neurotics are anxiety prone, accident prone, and often just prone.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

Luck: when your burst of energy doesn't run afoul of someone else's.