Age as an issue is one big fat oxymoronic mess…because you can’t come to any one conclusion about age. You can’t take any one position: not in employment, not in political picks, not in your own expectations about when you’ll hit your stride, when you’re in your prime and which…

“Do not deprive me of my age. I have earned it.”

“My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive, and to do so with some passion, some compassion, some humor, and some style.”

“I think the desire to expand and acquire changes with age- driven in part by the need to downsize, but also part of a reckoning with mortality. One begins to accept the truism: You can’t take it with you, so you might as well pass it on.”

“Talk is by far the most accessible of pleasures. It costs nothing in money, it is all profit, it completes our education, founds and fosters our friendships, and can be enjoyed at any age and in almost any state of health.”

“Dementia: Is it more painful to forget, or to be forgotten?”