Love, like a sense of humor, is now claimed by everyone even though Love, like a sense of humor, is rather more rare than not, and to most of us poor muddlers unbearable at full strength.

Can you imagine having a love affair going on and on decade after decade? Macabre.

If most men and women were forced to rely upon physical charm to attract lovers, their sexual lives would be not only meager but in a youth-worshiping country like America painfully brief.

Litigation takes the place of sex at middle age.

Write what you think, what you imagine, what you suspect!

What is in question is a kind of book reviewing which seems to be more and more popular: the loose putting down of opinions as though they were facts, and the treating of facts as though they were opinions.

Class is the most difficult subject for American writers to deal with as it is the most difficult for the English to avoid.