The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the next.

In any family, measles are less contagious than bad habits.

Most of our diversions do not so much delay death as accustom us to it.

There's something in every atheist, itching to believe, and something in every believer, itching to doubt.

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

I know which side my bread is buttered on: the side which falls on the carpet.