I have younger kids, and I adopted them late in life. They don't know these people [from Annie Hall] at all.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Never sleep with a lady only once, especially in the case of an older lady.-'Rhett

It’s not the destination (of seeking the truth) that creates our dignity or integrity, it’s the journey. From Messages From a Grandfather, by Robert Gately

Success means doing the best we can with what we have. Success is in the doing, not the getting - in the trying, not the triumph.

Sometimes we must yield control to others and accept our vulnerability so we can be healed.

Death accompanies us at every step and enables us to use those moments when life smiles at us to feel more deeply the sweetness of life. The more certain the end the more tempting the minute.

Regret is such a pointless emotion, don't you agree?

You fall in love with your heart; you fall out of love with your head.

For every dark night, there is a brighter day.

Childbirth being one's most significant life passage, those close to us when we open to birth a baby will never be forgotten.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement it would have been an Indiana Jones film.