“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.” — Lawrence Durrell Quote

“Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.”

“Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.”

“There are only three things to be done with a woman. You can love her, suffer for her, or turn her into literature.”

“Everybody's got their own opinion and their own say. In today's age, everybody wants to be right, so there's people that hate you; there's people that love you.”

“The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.”

“If repression has indeed been the fundamental link between power, knowledge, and sexuality since the classical age, it stands to reason that we will not be able to free ourselves from it except at a considerable cost.”