Today\\’s status symbol is

Today’s status symbol is the Palm Pilot; tomorrow’s is not having one, because you have a whole staff keeping track of you. It’s like a winter coat in Washington: The ultimate status symbol isn’t cashmere, it’s no coat at all on the snowiest day of the year – because that means you have a car … Read more

I, perhaps, at that

I, perhaps, at that stage, had the kind of ambition that others may have had; you know, namely based on the concept that if you were trained the world was out there waiting for you to provide a certain kind of leadership and give you an opportunity. But with the Depression, I began to see … Read more

[Walking] is the perfect

[Walking] is the perfect way of moving if you want to see into the life of things. It is the one way of freedom. If you go to a place on anything but your own feet you are taken there too fast, and miss a thousand delicate joys that were waiting for you by the … Read more

It\\’s difficult to explain,

It’s difficult to explain, but I just somehow feel that I never really *have* lived; that I never really will live–exist or whatever–in the sense that other people do. It drives me crazy. I was terribly aware of it all those nights waiting for you in the Ritz bar looking around at what seemed to … Read more