In middle age, I practiced feeling old, but the real thing has been a rude surprise.
Modernism: the books are as hard to understand as life itself.
Blackmail is one of the great pastimes of family life.
Dancers dance through their pain I shrink from mine.
Boredom is the only sure cure for neurosis.
Anybody can lead a frivolous life. A frivolous writer, however, must have taste and intelligence.