Our ability to delude ourselves may be an important survival tool.

Doctors and nurses are people who give you medicine until you die.

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

One of the most difficult things to contend with in a hospital is that assumption on the part of the staff that because you have lost your gall bladder you have also lost your mind.

I thought I told you to wait in the car.

Once a woman has forgiven a man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

Two paradoxes are better than one; they may even suggest a solution.

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

It is better to be unfaithful than to be faithful without wanting to be.