What a shame that allowances have to stop with the teens: both those that are paid to us and those that are made for us.

We often pray to be better, when in truth we only want to feel better.

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.

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

If you see in your children most of your own faults, you have failed as a parent, but succeeded as a neurotic.

A new wound makes all the old ones ache again.

Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.