Happiness is the light on the water. The water is cold and dark and deep.

A gentleman doesn't have one set of manners for the house of a poor man and another for the house of someone with an income incomparable to his own.

What we refer to confidently as memory is really a form of storytelling that goes on continually in the mind and often changes with the telling.

Love, even of the most ardent and soul-destroying kind, is never caught by the lens of the camera.

The nail doesn't choose the time or the circumstances in which it is drawn to the magnet

My younger daughter told me recently that when she was a child she thought the typewriter was a toy that I went into my room and closed the door and played with.

The view after seventy is breathtaking. What is lacking is someone, anyone, of the older generation to whom you can turn when you want to satisfy your curiosity about some detail of the landscape of the past. There is no longer any older generation. You have become it, while your mind was mostly on other matters