We are like people with short-term leases on summer cottages; we can never seem to make our provisions come out even with our stay.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

A critic can only review the book he has read, not the one which the writer wrote.

Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.

We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

Philosophy teaches a man that he can't take it with him; taxes teach him he can't leave it behind either.