“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 whats important and whats not.”

“Its not loving a man that makes life harder for gay guys, its homophobia. Its not the color of their skin that makes life harder for people of color; its racism. Its not having vaginas that makes l...”

“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.”

“We dont ask when people age out of singing, or eating ice cream; why would we stop making love?”

“Nowhere is ageism more sexist, and vicious, than in the domain of sexuality.”

“The myth of self-sufficiency demands optimism without end, downplays lifes challenges, and shames us when, inevitably, we fall short.”

“Age has no reality except in the physical world. The essence of a human being is resistant to the passage of time. Our inner lives are eternal, which is to say that our spirits remain as youthful a...”

“How many loved your moments of glad grace, And loved your beauty with love false or true; But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, And loved the sorrows of your changing face.”

“I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end.”

“THE BEST people are the good old wrinkled people with a sparkle in their eye, a wink when you walk by or a toothless smile saying you are doing just fine ...”

“People will laugh at your age over your Mind and Essence”

“The story of humanity can be written as the struggle to acknowledge all human beings as human beings.”

“Mr. B used to take the Denver Post and clip coupons in his sunny dining room till he said he 'got fed up with having to pay for it.' Now, he clips coupons from the librarys newspaper copy. The mans...”