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

People find it hard to be both comic and serious, though life manages it easily enough.

All love is probationary, a fact which frightens women and exhilarates men.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

After he has had his tantrum, the neurotic expects those around him to feel friendly and relaxed; after all, he does.

Says the rude child: "No, I won't do it." Says the courteous grown-up: "Yes, I won't do it.