“I’m not a facelift person. I am what I am.”

“The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.”

“Age brings perspective. Age points the way to things that are most important to us. It tells us what to hold and what to discard. It’s the great unclutterer.”

“You’ll find that as you grow old, you stop bothering to hide the self you’ve been all along.”

“I read so that I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

“I’m a health nut. My favorite food is hot dogs with French fries. And my exercise? I have a two-story house and a very bad memory, so I’m up and down those stairs.”