No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.

I'm really sorry for people growing up right now, because they have some cockeyed idea that they can get by with their eyes closed; the cane they're tapping is money, and that won't take them in the right direction.

Old age is another country, a place of strangeness, sometimes, and dislocation. There's a lot to be done in this country, and a great deal of pleasure there. There are friends, some of whom are sick and needful of you, as you will be of them someday. The world itself is very beautiful. It's a place where you have a lot to do. But you have to do it knowing that sometimes you will be afraid of this new country.

I lived in a house in the East Bronx, a totally Jewish neighborhood on East 172nd Street. You didn't see Christians much, although one lived next door. We thought they were kind of a minority.

Everyone, real or invented, deserves the open destiny of life.

All that is really necessary for survival of the fittest, it seems, is an interest in life, good, bad or peculiar.

No metaphor reinvents the job of the nurture of children except to muddy or mock.