In a sense, one can never read the book that the author originally wrote, and one can never read the same book twice.
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
There is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.
If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes.
Real genius of moral insight is a motor which will start any engine.
I have learned to read the papers calmly and not to hate the fools I read about.