Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

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.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties mental and physical but the burden of one's memories.