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.

It's hard to be happy, and safe, and applauded in a miserable world.

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

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

Is there any vanity greater than the vanity of those who believe themselves without it?

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.

Shifting problems is the first rule for a long and pleasant life.