“If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise.”

“The only question that really counts, must be thins one: are things getting better or are they getting worse?”

“Writing was a spiritual exercise for my father, the only thing he really believed in.”

“I massaged and trained in figure and facial exercises - although facial exercises are a lot of crap; the only effective one is cocksucking. No joke, there's nothing like it for firming the jawline.”

“At bottom, and just in the deepest and most important things, we are unutterably alone, and for one person to be able to advise or even help another, a lot must happen, a lot must go well, a whole constellation of things must come right in order once to succeed.”

“To resist the frigidity of old age, one must combine the body, the mind, and the heart. And to keep these in parallel vigor one must exercise, study, and love.”