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We wanted this war and now we’ve got it, and I’m not sure that we know what to do with it.

Now that I’m staring down the barrel of the last act of my life, I’m less excited about control and solo effort, and I resent the way the business aspects interfere with my space for creative writing.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Memory… is the diary that we all carry about with us.

It’s disturbing at my age to look at a young woman’s destructive behaviour and hear the echoes of it, of one’s own destructiveness in youth.

Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?

There are things God does for me daily, and it throws me into brain lock, because I know in my heart I don’t deserve that kind of grace. I don’t deserve that break.

Sweet is the memory of past troubles.

It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto non-existent blindingly obvious. The cry ‘I could have thought of that’ is a very popular , misleading one, for the fact is that they didn’t, , a very significant , revealing fact it is too.