No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Tough and funny and a little bit kind: that is as near to perfection as a human being can be.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what's missing.

Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable.

What's for dinner is the only question many husbands ask their wives, and the only one to which they care about the answer.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.