A five-year old is in a pretty good position to assess who is beautiful and who is not. Removed from the confusions of sexuality, he or she can judge a face as a face.
Roger RosenblattIf you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.
Roger RosenblattOne of the very important things that have to be learned around the time dying becomes a real prospect is to recognize those occasions when we have been useful in the world.
Roger RosenblattWhy, for example, do the great writers use anticipation instead of surprise? Because surprise is merely an instrument of the unusual, whereas anticipation of a consequence enlarges our understanding of what is happening.
Roger Rosenblatt