I used to go away for weeks in a state of confusion.
Also, if nothing else, writing this book has really changed the way I experience bookstores. I have a whole different appreciation for the amount of work packed into even the slimmest volume on the shelves.
When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.
When you’re 50 you start thinking about things you haven’t thought about before. I used to think getting old was about vanity – but actually it’s about losing people you love. Getting wrinkles is trivial.
I have thought there was some advantage even in death, by which we mingle with the herd of common men.
My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?
He was a dreamer, a thinker, a speculative philosopher… or, as his wife would have it, an idiot.
In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet.
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