When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?

There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there's only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there's no reason why you shouldn't have a fairly good time.

Time is a cruel thief to rob us of our former selves. We lose as much to life as we do to death.

This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force.

I don't visit my parents often because Delta Airlines won't wait in the yard while I run in.

If the shoe fits, it's too expensive.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to him by heart and his friends can only read the title.

Man forgives woman anything save the wit to outwit him.

Some people say that cats are sneaky, evil, and cruel. True, and they have many other fine qualities as well.

Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.

Falling out of love is very enlightening. For a short while you see the world with new eyes.

Experience suggests it doesn't matter so much how you got here, as what you do after you arrive.

All marriages are happy. It's trying to live together afterwards that causes all the problems.

"If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything."

Behind every successful man is a surprised woman.

"When you are unhappy, is there anything more maddening than to be told that you should be contented with your lot?"

"Egotism -- usually just a case of mistaken nonentity."

"The battle to keep up appearances unnecessarily, the mask -- whatever name you give creeping perfectionism -- robs us of our energies."

I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.

"No nice men are good at getting taxis."