Surrounded by people who love life, you love it too; surrounded by people who don't, you don't.

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.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.