“Creativity could be described as letting go of certainties.”

“In my memoir, I admit that I've been as fearful of success as of failure. In fact, when 'Passages' was published, I so dreaded bad reviews that I ran away to Italy with a girlfriend and our childre...”

“Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.”

“The perceptions of middle age have their own luminosity.”

“The delights of self-discovery are always available.”

“When men reach their sixties and retire, they go to pieces. Women go right on cooking.”

“I often think about dogs when I think about work and retirement. There are many breeds of dog that just need to be working, and useful, or have a job of some kind, in order to be happy. Otherwise t...”

“Retirement is purgatory for the former sports star. The world outside organized sports is unforgiving.”

“Making a Christmas album is looked upon by some people as the thing you do when you are heading towards retirement.”