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

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.

It's easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child - at least till you try to get him to do something.

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

There are always a few people you do a lot for, and a few who do a lot for you, but they're not the same people.

We waste a lot of time running after people we could have caught by just standing still.