“When so many are lonely as seem to be lonely, it would be inexcusably selfish to be lonely alone.”

“As I got older and things got more fixed and I couldn’t do anything about them and I had health problems – a couple of heart attacks, long hospital stays, this, that, the other – when things get settled like that, you make a deal, or you don’t, and that…

“It’s kind of poetic to know that I’m not going to be here forever. No one is. I walk through graveyards, and I read obits. I’m not morbid about it. I just acknowledge life passing and all of us being here for a little while, and it’s kind of beautiful…

“God is like, ‘I’m with you up to about thirty-eight.’ After that, God says, ‘If you want to stay, you can stay. But I’m moving on.’”

“You only need four things in your life at my age: a doctor you can trust, friends you can lean on, a sense of humor, and a good hairdresser.”

“In my whole life, I have known no wise people (over a broad subject matter area) who didn’t read all the time—none, zero.” And “If it’s wisdom you are after, you are going to spend a lot of time sitting on your ass and reading.”