Mothers always think you are working either too hard or not hard enough.

the most all-around, practical, long-wearing illusions are the ones that you weave yourself.

I didn't learn for years that you generally find your Self after you quit looking for it.

Many a restaurant seems to employ more copy writers than cooks.

travel never made a bore interesting; it only makes for a well-traveled bore, in the same way coffee makes for a wide-awake drunk. In fact, the more a bore travels, the worse he gets. The only advantage in it for his friends and family is that he isn't home as much.

This is your dividing line, by the way, between child and nonchild - when the first trouble happens that Mama can't fix.

Drinking: something to do while getting drunk.