There's no way to repay a mother's love, or lack of it.

Theatre audiences can't be made to think and cry: at best, they can be made to think and laugh, or to feel and cry.

Healthy parakeets have the nervous energy of tennis players.

As we are human, we can't do what we can't do; as we're neurotic, we can't do what we can.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

The neurotic would like to trust his analyst - if only because he's paying him so much money. But he can't - because if the analyst really cared, he'd be doing it for nothing.

Love requires a willingness to die; marriage, a willingness to live.