I do not think that marriage is one of my talents. I've been much happier unmarried than married.

For the last third of life there remains only work. It alone is always stimulating, rejuvenating, exciting and satisfying.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

Humanity's legacy of stories and storytelling is the most precious we have. All wisdom is in our stories and songs. A story is how we construct our experiences. At the very simplest, it can be: 'He/she was born, lived, died.' Probably that is the template of our stories - a beginning, middle, and end. This structure is in our minds.

I think kids ought to travel. I think it's very good to carry kids around. It's good for them. Of course it's tough on the parents.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.

Trust no friend without faults, and love a woman, but no angel.

September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.