Today's shocks are tomorrow's conventions.

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.

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

We cannot guess the outcome of our actions... Which is why our actions must always be acceptable in themselves, and not as strategies.

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

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.

Whether animals admit it or not, they and I communicate.