As a young man it was very disturbing to teach beautiful girls because it was lust, and putting on a show, peacocking. But you just calm out if you're around sixty—most of us, anyway. Now I feel like an uncle to the young beauties I teach. So I've learned more about women, let's say, in the last decade by the normal process of aging and mellowing.

The Paris Review, Issue 172, Winter 2004, The Art of Fiction No. 184