“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.’”

“We labor into life and we labor out of life. All of us are born with life and death walking next to us.”

“We are all figuring it out as we go. Aging is grad school.”

“Good friends, good books, and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”

“To do good work one must eat well, be well housed, have one’s fling from time to time…and drink one’s coffee in peace.”

“The advantage of a bad memory is that one enjoys several times the same good things for the first time.”