Retirement requires the invention of a new hedonism, not a return to the hedonism of youth.

More from City Aphorisms, Fourteenth Selection, New York

• In retirement, only money and symptoms are consequential.
• At retirement, switching from “I must” to “I want” leaves me puzzled and uneasy.
• At retirement, switching from "I must" to "I want" leaves me puzzled and uneasy. City Aphorisms, Eleventh Selection, New York (1993).
• Entrepreneurship is the last refuge of the trouble making individual.
• Faith moves mountains, but you have to keep pushing while you are praying.
• In retirement, I look for days off from my days off.