The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.

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.

The tragedy of machismo is that a man is never quite man enough.

Libraries are reservoirs of strength, grace and wit, reminders of order, calm and continuity, lakes of mental energy, neither warm nor cold, light nor dark.

What we ought to see in the agonies of puberty is the result of the conditioning that maims the female personality in creating the feminine.

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