I cried out and my own voice was muffled by the hood.
Everyone wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.
In the absences of a decent time machine, fiction remains the most sturdy vehicle for visiting other eras.
I have enjoyed greatly the second blooming... suddenly you find - at the age of 50, say - that a whole new life has opened before you.
A sympathetic Scot summed it all up very neatly in the remark, "You should make a point of trying every experience once, excepting incest and folk dancing."
All that is human must retrograde if it does not advance.
Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.