The neurotic lies awake at night, composing letters to those he hates. He seldom thinks of dropping a line to those he loves.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.