The trouble with women is men; the trouble with men, men.
Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.
In life, as in restaurants, we swallow a lot of indigestible stuff just because it comes with the dinner.
A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.
We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.
Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.