Today's Youth Seem Finally To Have Understood

We In Middle Age Require Adventure.

Power Is The Ability To Take One's Place In Whatever Discourse Is Essential To Action And The Right To Have One's Part Matter.

One Cannot Make Up Stories; One Can Only Retell In New Ways The Stories One Has Already Heard.

Why Do Long Marriages Occasionally Endow Their Inhabitants With A Rare Kind Of Equilibrium Otherwise Almost Unknown In Human Relations? My Guess Is That The Value Of The Moment Has At Last Overshadowed The Long History Of Resentments, Betrayals, And Boredom.

New York Is Not Like London, A Now-and-then Place To Many People. You Can Either Not Live In New York Or Not Live Anyplace Else. One Is Either A Lover Or Hater.