One of the few graces of getting old—and God knows there are few graces—is that if you’ve worked hard and kept your nose to the grindstone, something happens: The body gets old but the creative mechanism is refreshed, smoothed and oiled and honed. That is the grace. That is what’s happening to me.
ATTRIBUTION:
Maurice Sendak (20th century), U.S. children’s author and illustrator. As quoted in an interview with Leonard S. Marcus, Parenting (October 1993).
