many people choose, early on, their own truths from the large smorgasbord available. And once they've chosen them, for good reason or no reason, they then proceed rather selectively, wisely gathering whatever will bolster them or at least carry out the color scheme.

Facts must be faced. Vegetables simply don't taste as good as most other things do.

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

You're not supposed to cuss when you're an old lady, and just when there's so much more to cuss about.

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.

forgetting things is what gives old age a bad name, that and old age.

The subject of men and women is absolutely fraught with sex, which is as it should be.