We are keenly aware of the faults of our friends, but if they like us enough it doesn't matter.

Neurotics make poor patriots; if you're ashamed of something as big as yourself, it's hard to be proud of something as small as your country.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

The marriage of convenience has this to recommend it: we are better judges of convenience than we are of love.

The neurotic is always half-drowning in anxiety, and always being half-rescued.

Few of us write great novels; all of us live them.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.