A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.

An artist usually has no friends except other artists, and usually they do not like his work.

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

We are never more self-righteous than when giving up what we should have shunned all along.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.