“I delight in men over seventy. They always offer one the devotion of a lifetime.”

Nothing except possibly love and death are of importance, and even death is somewhat ephemeral, as no one has yet faxed back a reliable report.

“Those who love deeply never grow old; they may die of old age, but they die young.”

“Every house needs a grandmother in it.”

“Age does not protect you from love. But love, to some extent, protects you from age.”

“In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid to change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.”