There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.

You don't get over hating to cook, any more than you get over having big feet.

One's travel life is basically as incommunicable as his sex life is.

It isn't surprising that many children consider their parents to be a little dim, and that they sometimes try to update them. The fact that they don't usually try too hard is just as well; a thoroughly updated parent is an unappetizing sight.

it isn't true, by the way, that nothing is as bad as you think it's going to be. Some things are exactly as bad as you thought they were going to be, and some things are worse.

The fact is, the cocktail party has much in its favor. Going to one is a good way of indicating that you're still alive and about, if such is the case, and that you're glad other people are, without having to spend an entire evening proving it.

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