A Man in Full

by Tom Wolfe

Your first wife married you for better or for worse. Your second wife, particularly if you were sixty and she was a twenty-eight-year-old number like Serena—why kid yourself?—she married you for better.

Washington Irving, and do you know what he said? He said, ‘There are three ages of man: youth, middle age, and you-haven’t-changed-a-bit.’”