Freud is the father of psychoanalysis. It had no mother.

Awareness of time as flying has some advantages; it precludes boredom, for one thing. It matters little that younger people find older people boring or slow. Older people have a right to resist being rushed, to stand and stare at the fragile world that has become so unspeakably dear to them. For the lucky ones, who will not have to leave while they are still in love with life, there will come a later time when that passion too will fade, but while one is still possessed by that great tenderness, it must be yielded to.

Yet if a woman never lets herself go, how will she ever know how far she might have got? If she never takes off her high-heeled shoes, how will she ever know how far she could walk or how fast she could run?

The house wife is an unpaid employee in her husband's house in return for the security of being a permanent employee.

Supergroupies don't have to hang around hotel corridors. When you are one, as I have been, you get invited backstage.

Loneliness is never more cruel than when it is felt in close propinquity with someone who has ceased to communicate.

The struggle which is not joyous is the wrong struggle. The joy of the struggle is not hedonism and hilarity, but the sense of purpose, achievement and dignity.