To become young again would seem to me an appalling prospect. Youth is a kind of delirium, which can be cured, if it is ever cured at all, by years of painful treatment.
Logan Pearsall SmithWe need new friends; some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact the ideal version of their lives.
Logan Pearsall SmithThere is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.
Logan Pearsall SmithIt is the dread of something happening, something unknown and dreadful, that makes us do anything to keep the flicker of talk from dying out.
Logan Pearsall Smith