Others settle for small rewards; the neurotic must always go for broke.

When women feel they have learned to forgive their mothers - and men, their fathers - all it usually means is that they've decided to allow themselves the same kind of behavior.

A woman's mink coat represents the sacrifice of a lot of little animals, including her husband.

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.

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

You will turn over many a futile new leaf till you learn we must all write on scratched-out pages.

It does not undo harm to acknowledge that we have done it; but it undoes us not to acknowledge it.