The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays life’s challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.

My first interview was with eighty-eight-year-old folk artist Marcia Muth… ‘Your life does change as you get older, ’ she told me. ‘You get into what’s important and what’s not’.

The sooner growing older is stripped of reflexive dread, the better equipped we are to benefit from the countless ways in which it can enrich us.

In a Pyongyang restaurant, don't ever ask for a doggie bag.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

Today, nearly 40 percent of a senior's healthcare spending is on pharmaceutical medications.

There is no neat distinction between operating system software and the software that runs on top of it.

I wondered what one wore to visit a vampire. The chic red sweater set didn't go so well with my darker hair, and I was afraid it might be construed as a flirtatious invitation to color me bloodier.

The possibility of killing one's self is a safety valve. Having it, man has no right to say life is unbearable.

I refuse to be stereotyped.

I guess not being able to hear just made me adventurous and daring. And in most cases, that didn't make my parents very happy with me.

Life is too short to dust every week.

I don't think you need to go looking for the enemy. He's going to look for you.