Your children vividly remember every unkind thing you ever did to them, plus a few you really didn’t.

You never realize how tacky your furniture is till you try to give it to the Salvation Army and they won’t take it.

The neurotic’s strongest fantasy is that he has no fantasies. The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

Desire creates havoc when it is the only thing between two people, or when it is what’s missing.

If it came true, it wasn’t much of a dream.

It must infuriate our children to see us always so much more forbearing with everybody else’s.

I’m afraid to win, and afraid to lose; I hate a draw and can’t stop competing; otherwise I’m fine.

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.

How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he’s going to wind up wanting hasn’t even been born.

No one really listens to anyone else, and if you try it for a while you’ll see why.