When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

No woman wants to see herself too clearly.

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

Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn't exist.

Not for nothing does the neurotic suffer - but not for anything very much, either.

Neurotics dream of a good life, or a great suicide note.

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