A woman ought to look up to her husband, if only a half-inch.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.

Loneliness, insomnia, and change: the fear of these is even worse than the reality.

Neurotics are always looking for something new to overdo.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

The neurotic has perfect vision in one eye, but he cannot remember which.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.