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

The journey is over. Love to all.

Quoting, like smoking, ... is a dirty habit to which I am devoted. But then ... I am a professor of English literature; it is an occupational hazard.

The compulsion to find a lover and husband in a single person has doomed more women to misery than any other illusion.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes.

People who are genuinely involved in life, not just living a routine they've contrived to protect them from disaster, always seem to have more demanded of them than they can easily take on.

Everyone likes to talk shop, which is the most interesting talk in the world, in the beginning.