Feel, he told himself, feel, feel, feel. Even if what you feel is pain, only let yourself feel.

“What mattered at fifty-eight was what had mattered at eighteen: breeding and go…”

“Man is diminished if he lives without knowledge of his past; without hope of a …”

“We can experience nothing but the present moment, live in no other second of ti…”

“I don't see why escapist literature shouldn't also be a work of art.”