Rise

[scarletwoman]

68. Oh, that's a wonderful quote!

Thank you so much for posting this! I had not heard that one before, not being very well-read in his works.

I met him once (back in the Stone Age when I was a college student) just briefly, in the seating area at an airport gate. I recognized him at once, but I was completely tongue-tied and my mind went totally blank. I simply shook his hand, said something entirely inane about admiring him, and finally turned away because I was so embarrassed that I couldn't think of anything pithy and intellectual to say.

He, of course, was totally gracious and sweet toward the young idiot that I was. For years afterward I wished I had had the sense to open a conversation with a simple question of where he was off to, and then sat down and listened for awhile.

Ah well...