Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.

You become a writer because you need to become a writer - nothing else.

If you're old and you're healthy and you're active - I don't mean you have to be politically active - if you remain interested in other people and the world, then you live as well as your health will allow.

My language limitations here are real. My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life. If I really knew this language, there would surely be in my head, as there is in Webster's or the Dictionary of American Slang, that unreducible verb designed to tell a person like me what to do next.

I really believe one of the jobs of a writer is to stretch as far as you can into other voices.

In the end, long life is the reward, strength, and beauty.

Rosiness is not a worse windowpane than gloomy gray when viewing the world.