FEEDBACK

I note in Choire Sicha’s Sunday feature (“The Sunday Conversation,” May 17) his statement that “Life is short; it’s about having nice things now.”

I am amused that an interviewer would make this statement rather than a celebrity, but despite its source, the statement adequately summarizes the major problem with today’s younger American generation -- the economic woes we face in this country are the result of our leaders’ and the common people’s inability to delay personal gratification until they are able to pay for it.

My hunch is that Mr. Sicha is in his 30s -- old enough to know how to use credit cards but not sufficiently mature to know when to use them.

Alan Lasnover, MD

Elfin Forest