If you have to do it every day, for God's sake learn to do it well.

The neurotic feels as though trapped in a gas-filled room where at any moment someone, probably himself, will strike a match.

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

It upsets women to be, or not to be, stared at hungrily.

In retrospect, our triumphs could as easily have happened to someone else; but our defeats are uniquely our own.

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

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.