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.

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

Thinking about profound social change, conservatives always expect disaster, while revolutionaries confidently anticipate utopia. Both are wrong.

Quoting, like smoking, is a dirty habit to which I am devoted.

Androgyny suggests a spirit of reconciliation between the sexes; it suggests, further, a full range of experience…it suggests a spectrum upon which human beings choose their places without regard to propriety or custom.

One hires lawyers as on hires plumbers, because one wants to keep one's hands off the beastly drains.

maturity ... is letting things happen.