Beauty often fades, but seldom so swiftly as the joy it gives us.

No matter how many Christmas presents you give your child, there's always that terrible moment when he's opened the very last one. That's when he expects you to say, 'Oh yes, I almost forgot,' and take him out and show him the pony.

When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.

What we forgive too freely doesn't stay forgiven.

The neurotic's strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.