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

Professors of literature collect books the way a ship collects barnacles, without seeming effort.

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

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.

Ideas move fast when their time comes.

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

maturity ... is letting things happen.