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

Despair is anger with no place to go.

Revenge leads to an empty fullness, like eating dirt.

We always prefer war on our own terms to peace on someone else's.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.

Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.

In the theater, as in life, we prefer a villain with a sense of humor to a hero without one.