Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

Without enthusiasm, virtue functions not at all, and vice only poorly.

I'm always there to tell people that their life is not that bad. I wish it was easy to follow that advice.

We are seldom happy with what we now have, but would go to pieces if we lost any part of it.

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

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

When we discuss those we love with those who do not love them, the end of love is near.