“After a while, you just don’t do things you don’t wanna do – that’s the great freedom you get, the older you get. You learn what to do and what not to do, and what will be a waste of time and what won’t be a waste of time.”

“Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you’re 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or novel written, or you didn’t go swimming in those warm pools and oceans all those years because your thighs were jiggly and you had a nice big comfortable…

“If you get to my age in life and nobody thinks well of you, I don’t care how big your bank account is, your life is a disaster.”

“True love comes quietly, without banners or flashing lights. If you hear bells, get your ears cleaned.”

 “Our brains don’t remember everything, but maybe what they remember is enough. And yet even when the meaningful is forgotten, memory doesn’t define what it means to be human.”

‎”You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the present.”