“For one thing, she pronounced flowers 'flars' and I couldn't let it slide.”

“I can feel a thing I cannot touch and touch a thing I cannot feel. The first is sad and sorry, the second is your heart.”

“At forty my faculties may have closed up like flowers at evening, leaving me unable to write my memoirs with a fitting and discreet inaccuracy, or, having written them, unable to carry them to the publisher.”

“I hate women because they always remember where things are.”

“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost friends, some by death... others through sheer inability to cross the street.”

“Let us not look back in anger, nor forward in fear, but around us in awareness.”

“She wasn't much to look at but she was something to think about.”