Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.
There's only one person who needs a glass of water oftener than a small child tucked in for the night, and that's a writer sitting down to write.
If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.
Don't be yourself - be someone a little nicer.
Suburb: a place that isn't city, isn't country, and isn't tolerable.
At the beginning of a love affair, not even the neurotic is neurotic.