Women polish the silver and water the plants and wait to be really needed.

To talk easily with people, you must firmly believe that either you or they are interesting. And even then it's not easy.

They threaten me with lung cancer, and still I smoke and smoke. If they'd only threaten me with hard work, I might stop.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

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

The neurotic keeps minute track of his enemies; it is only his friends he is careless about.