There is no advantage getting older. You don't get smarter, you don't get wiser, you don't get more mellow, you don't get more kindly, nothing good happens. Your back hurts more, you get more indigestion, your eyesight isn't as good, you need a hearing aid. It's a bad business getting old and I would advise you not to do it if you can avoid it. It doesn't have a romantic quality.

And in all of Babylonia there was wailing and gnashing of teeth, 'til the prophets bade the multitudes get a grip on themselves and shape up.

Just don't take any class where you have to read BEOWULF.

I was in analysis for years because of a traumatic childhood; I was breast-fed through falsies.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

. . . they confuse everything I do with my life.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.