I've been going through photos of my mother looking back on her life and trying to put it into context. Very few people age gracefully enough to be photographed through their aging.

My wife and I unlike many intellectuals spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

If you're extremely painfully frightened of age it shows.

I think being able to age gracefully is a very important talent. It is too late for me.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.