Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

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

Love looks forward, hate looks back, anxiety has eyes all over its head.

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

It's impossible to be loyal to your family, your friends, your country, and your principles, all at the same time.

It is always safe to tell people that they're looking wonderful.

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.