It does seem so pleasant to talk with an old acquaintance who knows what you know. I see so many new folks nowadays who seem to have neither past nor future. Conversation has got to have some root in the past, or else you have got to explain every remark you make, and it wears a person out.

So we die before our own eyes; so we see some chapters of our lives come to their natural end.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

The road was new to me, as roads always are, going back.

We have had so much of the same background, our musical background and where we came from, and what we listened to in common and all those years we played toge…

My only true friend here in the prison among the defendants is Albert Speer. He is a great architect and has a great genius for organization. When I came to Be…

I then had one of the three or four long intimate conversations with him which are all I can boast.