I know more about what it's like to be elderly and infirm and kind of stupid, the way you get forgetful, but on the other hand I'm a littler, wiser, dare we say? The word 'wisdom' has kind of faded out of our vocabulary, but yeah, I'm a little wiser.

Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness.

Every marriage tends to consist of an aristocrat and a peasant. Of a teacher and a learner.

Momentarily drained of lust, he stares at the remembered contortions to which it has driven him. His life seems a sequence of grotesque poses assumed to no purpose, a magic dance empty of belief.

The difficulty with humourists is that they will mix what they believe with what they don't whichever seems likelier to win an effect.

Sex is like money only too much is enough.