Only A Marriage With Partners Strong Enough

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.

The Married Are Those Who Have Taken The Terrible Risk Of Intimacy And, Having Taken It, Know Life Without Intimacy To Be Impossible.

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

It's Hard To Be Happy, And Safe, And Applauded In A Miserable World.

A Literary Academic Can No More Pass A Bookstore Than An Alcoholic Can Pass A Bar.