You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

It's no disgrace to be a private, you know. Socrates was a plain foot soldier, a hoplite.

We are funny creatures. We don't see the stars as they are, so why do we love them? They are not small gold objects, but endless fire.

Live or die but don't poison everything.

...I am much better now at ambiguities.

Everybody knows there is no fineness or accuracy of suppression; if you hold down one thing, you hold down the adjoining.

Retirement is an illusion. Not a reward but a mantrap. The bankrupt underside of success. A shortcut to death. Golf courses are too much like cemeteries.