... success always worries academics, when it moves into the popular world.

The rare, delicate flavor of a life after retiring in one's sixties, whatever one has "retired" from, the pleasure I experienced beyond my job at Columbia, is a gift of life in the last decades. but it is not easily learned. . . . But sometimes, the only way to live is to get out, or at least seriously to contemplate getting out, doing the impossible,flinging the conventional tea.

. . . a relationship has a momentum, it must change and develop, and will tend to move toward the point of greatest commitment.

as the years go on a sense of deep patience comes over one; one seems to know the virtue of ripeness, and the danger of rushing events.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.

That is the point of quotations. One can use another's words to be insulting.

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