People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.