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.

The only mothers it is safe to forget on Mother's Day are the good ones.

Tragedy isn't getting something, or failing to get it; it's losing something you already have.

The fear of being laughed at makes cowards of us all.

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

We have a terror of seeming to exert ourselves, lest it be noticed that we exerted ourselves and did not succeed.

Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.