Self-confidence grows on trees, in other people's orchards.

A first-rate marriage is like a first-rate hotel: expensive, but worth it.

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

We work for praise, and dawdle once we have it.

People keep telling us about their love affairs, when what we really want to know is how much money they make and how they manage on it.

The three horrors of modern life - talk without meaning, desire without love, work without satisfaction.

We wake in the night, to stereophonic silence.