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

"When I was about five years old, my mother 'enrolled' me in the Isaac Gerson Foundation Hebrew Day Nursery. "

"In six days, the United States will, hopefully, be electing a new president, and, thinking about it, I found myself reliving the first presidential election that I am able to remember."

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

"I was 12 years old. My routine was clearly established."

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

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

"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."

"This may be a bit premature, but I am writing this as the introduction to the section of my memoirs containing the scores of poems I have written over the years. "

"Imagine my surprise when I picked up the paper some time ago to learn that Jacob is the most popular boy’s name in the U.S."