We in middle age require adventure.

Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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.

I don't know why togetherness was ever held up as an ideal of marriage. Away from home for both, then together, that's much better.

To recommend that women become identical to men, would be simple reversal, and would defeat the whole point of androgyny, and for that matter, feminism: in both, the whole point is choice.

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

What marks a writer is this: until she - or he, of course - writes down whatever happened, turns it into a story, it hasn't really happened, it hasn't shape, form, reality.