A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

Life has this in common with prizefighting: if you've received a belly blow, it's likely to be followed by a right to the jaw.

Only a marriage with partners strong enough to risk divorce is strong enough to avoid it.

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.

We in middle age require adventure.

one sank into the ancient sin of anomie when challenges failed.