A Preoccupation With The Future

To Grow Old Is To Grow Common. Old Age Equalizes -- We Are Aware That What Is Happening To Us Has Happened To Untold Numbers From The Beginning Of Time. When We Are Young We Act As If We Were The First Young People In The World.

What Merit There Is In My Thinking Is Derived From Two Peculiarities: (1) My Inability To Be Familiar With Anything. I Simply Can't Take Things For Granted. (2) My Endless Patience. I Assume That The Only Way To Find An Answer Is To Hang On Long Enough And Keep Groping.

...in The Shaping Of A Life, Chance And The Ability To Respond To Chance Are Everything.

Facts Are Counterrevolutionary.

Call Not That Man Wretched, Who Whatever Ills He Suffers, Has A Child To Love.