The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

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

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

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.

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

The ideal home: big enough for you to hear the children, but not very well.