Cynic' is the sentimentalist's name for the realist.
maturity ... is letting things happen.
We in middle age require adventure.
Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.
The married are those who have taken the terrible risk of intimacy and, having taken it, know life without intimacy to be impossible.
New York is not like London, a now-and-then place to many people. You can either not live in New York or not live anyplace else. One is either a lover or hater.