Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

Minor vices lead to major ones, but minor virtues stay put.

People are like birds: on the wing, all beautiful; up close, all beady little eyes.

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

A parent who has never apologized to his children is a monster. If he's always apologizing, his children are monsters.

Men feel that women somehow drag them down, and women feel that way about men. It's possible that both are right.

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.