I like the old wisdom – puns, riddles, spells, proverbs.

Reading about ethics is about as likely to improve one’s behavior as reading about sports is to make one into an athlete.

Saying “I feel guilty” is a mere form of words. Saying “I feel ashamed” is not.

Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.

The same old thing – even if it’s champagne – is still the same old thing.

The exhibitionist loves to flirt with shame.

The wisdom of age: don’t stop walking.

Old age likes indecency. It’s a sign of life.

I answered my father’s demands for sympathy with silence.

After rejection – misery, then thoughts of revenge, and finally, oh well, another try elsewhere.