We in middle age require adventure.

The sign of a good marriage is that everything is debatable and challenged; nothing is turned into law or policy. The rules, if any, are known only to the two players, who seek no public trophies.

A literary academic can no more pass a bookstore than an alcoholic can pass a bar.

Upon becoming fifty the one thing you can't afford is habit.

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.

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

You can flush my ashes down the toilet, for all I care.