Everybody's An Art Critic.

Everyone Old Enough To Have A Secret Is Entitled To Have Some Place To Keep It.

There Are Always Proper Responses, Even To Rude Questions.

Screening Telephone Calls With A Receptionist Or The Humbler Answering Machine Is Not A Dishonorable Thing To Do. The Warmest People In The World Still Need Uninterrupted Time To Attend To Their Lives And Should Not Be Outwitted If They Have Made It Obvious That They Are Not Always Available Upon Summons.

The Idea That People Can Behave Naturally, Without Resorting To An Artificial Code Tacitly Agreed Upon By Their Society, Is As Silly As The Idea That They Can Communicate By A Spoken Language Without Commonly Accepted Semantic And Grammatical Rules.

When People Start Hurling Insults At You, You Know Their Minds Are Closed And There's No Point In Debating. You Disengage Yourself As Quickly As Possible From The Situation.