Ronald Reagan used to alarm other constituencies by speaking freely about the End Times foreshadowed in the Bible.

I have tried for much of my life to write as if I was composing my sentences to be read posthumously.

In the brute physical world, and the one encompassed by medicine, there are all too many things that could kill you, don't kill you, and then leave you considerably weaker.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I'm still quite robust.

I didn't think Marilyn Monroe was beautiful. It used to worry me. I thought maybe I'm not put together like the other chaps.

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.