Long-lived persons have one or two lines which extend through the whole hand; short-lived persons have two lines not extending through the whole hand.

If you are poor, you are not likely to live long.

Maybe I don’t have the most common kind of motor neuron disease, which usually kills in two or three years.

How young can you die of old age?

Men have a much better time of it than women. For one thing, they marry later; for another thing, they die earlier.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.