All your life you pretend to be someone else, and it turns out that you were someone else pretending to be you.

To become a grandparent is to enjoy one of the few pleasures in life for which the consequences have already been paid.

Count no day lost in which you waited your turn, took only your share and sought advantage over no one.

It is still possible to have friendly discourse in America, as long as you don't bring up any subject.

In this, the late afternoon of my life, I wonder: am I casting a longer shadow or is my shadow casting a shorter me?

If an artist has talent, he needs no other critic.

The shy and the extroverted have this in common — that they both fancy they are the center of attention.