Learning is a lifetime process, but there comes a time when we must stop adding and start updating.

In childhood, we yearn to be grown-ups. In old age, we yearn to be kids. It just seems that all would be wonderful if we didn't have to celebrate our birthdays in chronological order.

Sometimes it's worth getting lost to see who will come looking for us.

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.

Abstract art is a fundamental distrust of the theory of reality concocted by the eyes.

My eyesight's gone, my reflexes are shot, and I can't stay awake, but thank God I can still drive.

One of the great logical puzzles is how a woman is always like her mother but never like her sister.