The pleasure of one's effect on other people still exists in age - what's called making a hit. But the hit is much rarer and made of different stuff.

A father is always making his baby into a little woman. And when she is a woman he turns her back again.

I shall continue to explore-the astonishment of living.

It's not till sex has died out between a man and a woman that they can really love. And now I mean affection. Now I mean to be fond of (as one is fond of oneself) --to hope, to be disappointed, to live inside the other heart.

Pity is exhaustible. What a terrible discovery!

There may be wonder in money, but, dear God, there is money in wonder.

Before you fall asleep everyday, say something positive to yourself.