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

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

“If you hate your lot but wouldn't trade it, it's not your lot you hate.”

“I tell you this, and I tell you plainWhat you have done, you will do againYou will bite your tongue, careful or notUpon the already-bitten spot”

“An old racetrack joke reminds you that your program contains all the winners' names. I stare at my typewriter keys with the same thought.”

“What you have become is the price you paid to get what you used to want.”

“The hardest learned lesson: that people have only their kind of love to give, not our kind.”