The way the neurotic sees it: bars on his door mean that he's locked in; bars on your door mean that he's locked out.

We sometimes feel that we have been really understood, but it was always long ago, by someone now dead.

Women who feel naked without their lipstick are well over thirty.

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

When the pressures really mount, the neurotic must choose: Shall he have a good cry, or set fire to his neighbor's house?

Children lack morality, but they also lack fake morality.

One of life's few really reliable pleasures: to have a family you love, and to leave them for a week.