My mentors grow old and foolish. I am afraid.
If you have no power, talk about your influence. If you have power, talk about the constraints that hem you in.
Reading gives us someplace to go when we have to stay where we are.
The wisdom of age: don't stop walking.
The hysterical find too much significance in things. The depressed find too little.
The Lady: a fluty voice, sensible shoes, a melancholy sense of living by rules few still remember.