The catchword I use with my classes is: The authority of the writer always overcomes the skepticism of the reader.

I appreciate and enjoy my age.

Floating to shore...riding a low moon...on a slow cloud.

Art is not for the cultivated taste. It is to cultivate taste.

Death is a slave's freedom.

Baseball is already the world's most tranquil sport. It is probably the only active sport where you are not seriously required to be alive to play.

I hope that, reading 'Rosa,' people will remember their own family and friends and talk about what they did and did not do.