Humiliation is a vast country of imprecise boundaries. If you think you're there, you are. The neurotic rule: when in doubt, go ahead and feel humiliated.

Men prefer brief praise, pitched high; women are satisfied with praise in a lower key, just so it goes on and on.

The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.

Things are never so bad that they can't get worse. But they're sometimes so bad they can't get better.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

Every American child should grow up knowing a second language, preferably English.

The neurotic believes that life has meaning, but that his life hasn't.