If I miss anything, it's being able to hang out in the city of New York meeting people and talking to them on the corner.

Good talkers are people who use interesting language and have a lot of energy in speech and who also listen.

I'm seventy-five now. I also have the peculiar luck of having a sister and brother who are fourteen and sixteen years older than me. Their health is not good. It couldn't be at that age. But their spirits are. Both my brother and my sister are an example to me.

I liked the education. I liked people learning things all around me and I liked going to people's classes.

Art's too long and life's too short.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

It's a terrible thing to die young. Still, it saves a lot of time.