Your children tell you casually years later what it would have killed you with worry to know at the time.

Neurotics always feel as though they were going way up or way down, which is odd in people going sideways.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Even in the same family, one child will always instinctively know when to ask for things, and another won't.

Women flirt to keep their stock high, men to get somewhere.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

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