A good executive is one who makes people contentedly settle for less than they meant to get, in return for more than they meant to give.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

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

The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

Family quarrels have a total bitterness unmatched by others. Yet it sometimes happens that they also have a kind of tang, a pleasantness beneath the unpleasantness, based on the tacit understanding that this is not for keeps; that any limb you climb out on will still be there later for you to climb back.

It's wonderful to watch pretty women with character grow beautiful.