There were times over the years when life was not easy, but if you're working a few hours a day and you've got a good book to read, and you can go outside to the beach and dig for clams, you're okay.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
One of the first jobs I ever had was opening clams in a seafood restaurant, so I'm pretty quick at it.
I try to get to the beach every day. It brings sanity to my life. I'll just sit and read a book and enjoy the quiet.
What is it to enjoy life? Sit at the beach? No. What it is is that you have to do something, you have be productive, make a contribution to the society, to the family, to yourself.
What would be really difficult is to be sitting on a beach. There's vacations, and there's vegetations. I don't do well vegetating.
I grew up on the beach. It's just a way of life. You don't seek out that lifestyle; it's just day-to-day.
It's often difficult to slough off all that we've acquired, all the comforts and safety nets modern life provides for us, and realize that in those days, people were living very much on the edge - life was incredibly hard!
Life is where you're at. Whatever you're doing is enough. You don't need to do everything well all the time. When you live your life like that, it's a huge relief.
Life isn't meant to be easy. It's hard to take being on the top - or on the bottom. I guess I'm something of a fatalist. You have to have a sense of history, I think, to survive some of these things... Life is one crisis after another.
I have a very easy life, I can wander around.
I have a pretty easy life.