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.

A bore: one who knows as well as you do what he is going to say next.

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

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

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.