Most Full Lives Are Filled With Empty

That Is The Point Of Quotations. One Can Use Another's Words To Be Insulting.

Quoting, Like Smoking, ... Is A Dirty Habit To Which I Am Devoted. But Then ... I Am A Professor Of English Literature; It Is An Occupational Hazard.

The Rare, Delicate Flavor Of A Life After Retiring In One's Sixties, Whatever One Has "retired" From, The Pleasure I Experienced Beyond My Job At Columbia, Is A Gift Of Life In The Last Decades. But It Is Not Easily Learned. . . . But Sometimes, The Only Way To Live Is To Get Out, Or At Least Seriously To Contemplate Getting Out, Doing The Impossible,flinging The Conventional Tea.

Upon Becoming Fifty The One Thing You Can't Afford Is Habit.

Only A Marriage With Partners Strong Enough To Risk Divorce Is Strong Enough To Avoid It.