Indifference may not wreck a man's life at any one turn, but it will destroy him with a kind of dry-rot in the long run.
“Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.”
“Just this morning, out of a large memory for songs, and having been obsessed by them since childhood, suddenly, at the age of 84, I thought of a song I hadn't thought of in over 50 years. It came into my head unbidden.”