Quote of the Day (Roger Rosenblatt, on How ‘Age Concentrates the Mind’)

“Age concentrates the mind. The moment you realize you will no longer do something you’ve done all your life. The moment you realize that you will now need to do something you’ve never had to do before. The moment you realize that what used to be will never be the same. Some of this could lend itself to melancholy. But there is also a bigness to such moments that allows for wonder. A sense that you can’t quite comprehend it all.”— American memoirist, essayist, and novelist Roger Rosenblatt, “The World is a Room with a Piano Waiting to be Played,” The New York Times, Sept. 3, 2026