The neurotic always wishes people would let him alone - until they do. - Mignon McLaughlin

Women gather together to wear silly hats, eat dainty food, and forget how unresponsive their husbands are. Men gather to talk sports, eat heavy food, and forget how demanding their wives are. Only where children gather is there any real chance of fun.

The real is very real to him, the unreal even more so.

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