instant intimacy was too often followed by disillusion.

Words are more powerful than perhaps anyone suspects, and once deeply engraved in a child's mind, they are not easily eradicated.

Human relations just are not fixed in their orbits like the planets -- they're more like galaxies, changing all the time, exploding into light for years, then dying away.

Nobody stays special when they're old, Anna. That's what we have to learn.

No partner in a love relationship... should feel that he has to give up an essential part of himself to make it viable.

One of the good elements of old age is that we no longer have to prove anything, to ourselves or to anyone else. We are what we are.

My musical genius reached its apex thirty years ago when I played the triangle in Haydn's children's symphony, so I could not play unless you needed someone to make one sustained note!