Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he's covered with warts and is only after her money.

There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.

Every creature stalks some other, catches it, and is caught.

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

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