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"Being poor isn't so bad when most of the people around you are poor."

"I abhor waste. I am troubled by a society that is driven by built-in obsolescence."

"It was June 1952. The original plan--for Sylvia and me, together with our friends Sid and Barbara, to learn how to drive, buy a car and travel across the country during the summer--was scrapped."

"Growing up in the Bronx, I believed that Jewish families didn’t have pets."

"My wife Fran takes great pride in her plant management."

"I love to take pictures. In fact, over the past 50 years, I have never gone on a trip or to a 'special occasion' [...] without my camera. If my friends or family are there, or someone else’s friends or family, I am there taking pictures."

"Perhaps I am being too hard on myself, but in retrospect, I find it hard to believe that my life through the late 30s seemed largely unaffected (and unaware) by what was going on in the world."

Early partial draft of "A Child's View of the World in the '30s"

"It is June, 2007 and I am 79 1/2 years old. I have been writing my memoirs for several years, on and off, and I have touched on many facets of my life [...] But I woke up this morning with 'health' on my mind..."

"Ever since my mother died, I have been thinking about, and telling people, what a remarkable woman my mother was."