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

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do.

Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd want to die for "a lesser tyranny"

Of all second-class citizens, neurotics are the only ones who are so by choice.

Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.