It is possible, I suppose, that we are returning to a Dark Age. What is frightening is that violence is not only represented by nations, but everywhere walks among us freely.

For inside all the weakness of old age, the spirit, God knows, is as mercurial as it ever was.

There is only one real deprivation... and that is not to be able to give one's gifts to those one loves most.

Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.

When we speak of being vulnerable, it suggests being especially vulnerable to pain. People for whom personal dignity and self-sufficiency are everything, do all they can to shut it out. Noli mi tangere. They are well aware that any intimate relationship has pain in it, forces a special kind of awareness, is costly, and so they try to keep themselves unencumbered by shutting pain out as far as it is possible to do so.

Women are at last becoming persons first and wives second, and that is as it should be.

The more articulate one is, the more dangerous words become.