Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

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.

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

Being neurotic is like shooting fish in a barrel, and missing them.