Now that he's entered his 90s and feels his health is declining, he regretfully admits to having been a habitual procrastinator and says he was deeply moved by a passage from the eulogy that Pan Renmu wrote for Lin Hai-yin: "I thought there was still so much more [time], when in fact there was none."
年過 90 後，周公自覺健康愈來愈差，他語帶懊悔的說，以前總是拖，並憶起林海音過世時，小說家潘人木寫的懷念文章中，有二句話讓周公大有感觸：「… … 我以為還有很多，其實沒有了。」