The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do more, and you are not yet decrepit enough to turn them down.

But it is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it.

In the room the women come and go Talking of Michelangelo.

It is self-evident that St. Louis affected me more deeply than any other environment has ever done. I feel that there is something in having passed one's child…