We're getting so pulled in by computers and technology and our kids have their face in the computers all day. The human relationship is being diminished by this.

Unlike then the mail stream of today has diminished by such things as e-mails and faxes and cell phones and text messages largely electronic means of communication that replace mail.

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter simplicity to the former.

When everything else physical and mental seems to diminish the appreciation of beauty is on the increase.

The accumulation of skill and science which has been directed to diminish the difficulty of producing manufactured goods has not been beneficial to that country alone in which it is concentrated distant kingdoms have participated in its advantages.

And I find - I'm 63 and my capacity to be by myself and just spend time by myself hasn't diminished any. That's the necessary part of being a writer you better like being alone.