A doctor recently described to me "benign positional vertigo": it means you get dizzy in certain positions, but you can get over it without necessarily changing the position. Change "vertigo" to "anxiety," and you've summed up the neurotic's plight.

There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.

Too much money is as demoralizing as too little, and there's no such thing as exactly enough.

One day you are an apprentice, and everybody's pet; the next, you are coldly expected to deliver. There is never sufficient warning that the second day is coming.

Hot dogs always seem better out than at home; so do French-fried potatoes; so do your children.

Few novels or plays could exist without at least one troublemaker in the group, and perhaps life couldn't either.