Neurotic quarrels always have the same theme-song: Hate me and get it over with.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

At night, neurotics may toil not, but oh how they spin!

There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

To smoke or not to smoke: I can make of either a life-work.

If your children spend most of their time in other people's houses, you're lucky; if they all congregate at your house, you're blessed.