What Distinguishes Us One From Another Is

For Me Writing Is Foremost A Mode Of Thinking And When It Works Well, An Act Of Discovery

We Do Not Choose To Be Born.we Do Not--most Of Us, Choose To Die, Or The Times Or Conditions Of Our Death. But Within All This Realm Of Choicelessness, We Do Choose How We Shall Live--courageously Or In Cowardice, Honorably Or Dishonorably, With Purpose Or Adrift. We Decide What Is Important And What Is Trivial. What Makes Us Significant Is What We Do, Or Refuse To Do. We Decide And We Choose--and So We Give Definition To Our Lives.

Envy Is Never General, But Always Very Particular - At Least Envy Of The Kind One Feels Strongly.

What, Really, Is Wanted From A Neighborhood? Convenience, Certainly, An Absence Of Major Aggravation, To Be Sure. But Perhaps Mostof All, Ideally, What Is Wanted Is A Comfortable Background, A Breathing Space Of Intermission Between The Intensities Of Private Life And The Calculations Of Public Life.

The Best Joke-tellers Are Those Who Have The Patience To Wait For Conversation To Come Around To The Point Where The Jokes In Their Repertoire Have Application.