It was lovely when you found students who responded to things you were enthusiastic about.

I had inadvertently walked through a door that I shouldn’t have gone through and couldn’t get back to the place I hadn’t meant to leave.

Reading is rapture (or if it isn't, I put the book down meaning to go on with it later, and escape out the side door).

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

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

Satin and lace and brown velvet and the faint odor of violets. That was all which was left to him of his love.

A writer is a reader who is moved to emulation.