Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

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

With each passing year, one has less to say, and knows better how to say it.

If there is something you must do and you cannot do it, you cannot do anything else.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.