There is a rhythm to the ending of a marriage just like the rhythm of a courtship-only backward. You try to start again but get into blaming over and over. Finally you are both worn out, exhausted, hopeless. Then lawyers are called in to pick clean the corpses. The death has occurred much earlier.

of all the foolish Fears of Humankind, Fear of the Future is by far the most foolish.

biography is essentially a collaborative art, the latest biographer collaborating with all those who wrote earlier.

If you apologize for something that isn't your fault in the first place, you, in effect, confirm their belief that it is your fault.

Beware of the man who denounces psychiatrists; / he is afraid.

You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.

The stones themselves are thick with history, and those cats that dash through the alleyways must surely be the ghosts of the famous dead in feline disguise.