Despair is anger with no place to go.

We are irritated by rascals, intolerant of fools, and prepared to love the rest. But where are they?

Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

The neurotic circles ceaselessly above a fogged-in airport.

If you are brave too often, people will come to expect it of you.

I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again; You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.