All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.


On himself and his contemporaries. - Paris Review interview (1958)


All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.

All of us failed to match our dreams of perfection. So I rate us on the basis of our splendid failure to do the impossible.