The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone – until they do.
Altruism is a hard master, but so is opportunism.
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don’t.
Your best work always seems to have been done by someone else.
It’s easy enough to get along with a loved and loving child – at least till you try to get him to do something.
Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.
Pity all newlyweds. She cooks something nice for him, and he brings her flowers, and they kiss and think: How easy marriage is.
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Every creatures stalks some other, and catches it, and is caught.
Each day, the American housewife turns toward television as toward a lover. She feels guilty about it, and well she might, for he’s covered with warts and is only after her money.
The soul may sleep and the body still be happy, but only in youth.
Nobody ever loved anybody like everybody wants to be loved.
Some marriages break up, and some do not, and in our world you can usually explain the former better than the latter.
A love that lasts for twenty years may be better than love, but it isn’t love.
Affairs are just as disillusioning as marriage, and much less restful.
Neurotics think of the past with resentment, and the future with dread; the present just doesn’t exist.
It is always safe to tell people that they’re looking wonderful.
Others follow patterns; we alone are unpredictable.
The poor have the same basic pleasures as the rich, and the rich will always resent it.
I wish I’d said it first, and I don’t even know who did: The only problems that money can solve are money problems.