I like friends who, when you tell them you need a moment alone, know enough not to stray too far.

If you can't explain something in a few words, try fewer.

Life is a series of family photos in which you keep moving to the rear until finally you're a portrait in the background.

Never mind the odds against you. If you doubled your effort, what would the odds against you do — send for reinforcements?

Looking back on our lives, we invariably find that the person we pretended to be is the person we became.

No one complains of being a prisoner of love who has ever been a prisoner of loneliness.

The problem with putting off things you've always wanted to do is that eventually you run out of always.