The past is strapped to our backs. We do not have to see it; we can always feel it.

Many marriages are simply working partnerships between businessmen and housekeepers.

All women are basically in competition with each other for a handful of eligible men.

Spiritual sloth, or acedia, was known as The Sin of the Middle Ages. It's the sin of my middle age, too.

No good neurotic finds it difficult to be both opinionated and indecisive.

Anything you do from the heart enriches you, but sometimes not till years later.

If only we could be old and sick while we're still young and healthy enough to put up with it!