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.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else's.

Love is often gentle, desire always a rage.

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

There are now electrical appliances with the main unit so sealed in that it cannot be got at for repair. There have always been human beings like that.

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.

When "Why not do it?" barely outweighs "Why do it?" — don't do it.