The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

From an aunt, long ago: "Death has come for me many times but finds me always in my lovely garden and leaves me there, I think, as an excuse to return.

There is a strong chance that siblings who turn out well were hassled by the same parents.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

No matter how reclusive we tend to be, we picture the after-life as a community of souls. It is one thing to seek privacy in this life; it is another to face eternity alone.

Road rage is the expression of the amateur sociopath in all of us, cured by running into a professional.

There is no daily chore so trivial that it cannot be made important by skipping it two days running.