“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”

“leave me. And it was a great sense of relief. The”

“I read a lot of history, biographies, science, and novels,' he says, ushering a reporter out the door with a hint of relief. 'I do not read management or economics.'(from an interview in the Christian Science Monitor, July 26, 1993)”

“In the meantime, I would work in the relief office and I began interviewing people . . . and found out how everybody, in order to be eligible for relief, had to have reached absolute bottom. You didn’t have to have a lot of brains to realize that once they reached that stage and you put them on an allowance of a dollar a day for food—how could they ever pull out of it?”

“I would not say it to a living soul, of course, but this is dead paper and a great relief to my mind.”

“He doesn’t love me yet, but in this place of death, in this precious moment of shared relief, he holds me.”