Old as she was, she still missed her daddy sometimes.

A myth is more powerful - and more lasting - than reality.

That's one of the privileges of old age - you can give plenty of advice 'cause most folks think that's all you got left anyway.

Six months of looking for a job had made me an expert at picking out the people who, like me, were hurrying up to wait - in somebody's outer anything for a chance to make it through their inner doors to prove that you could type two words a minute, or not drool on your blouse while answering difficult questions about your middle initial and date of birth.

Time is a funny thing. I was always puzzled with the way a single day could stretch itself out to the point of eternity in your mind, all while years melted down into the fraction of a second.

One should be able to return to the first sentence of a novel and find the resonances of the entire work.

Home. It's being new and old all rolled into one. Measuring your new against old friends, old ways, old places, Knowing that as long as the old survives, you can keep changing as much as you want without the nightmare of waking up to a total stranger.