This book is loaded with gems (which is why I refer to it as a fruitcake!). You can read it cover to cover, or just open it anywhere and be amazed at the verbal gems of this wonderful artist who dazzled us for many years with his fascinating and evolving work. I especially loved his description and reaction to New York City which is near where I grew up. He showed it to me with new eyes in all its beauty.Very very worth while for those of us who are artists and teachers of art, but also to those who want to see the evolution of a life well lived.