I came to water late. I learned to swim at the age of 20.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream, fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be, that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

I was getting hot flashes and sweats on a regular basis. That's not normal, even for my age.

I remember at the age of five travelling on a trolley car with my mother past a group of women on a picket line at a textile plant, seeing them being viciously beaten by security people. So that kind of thing stayed with me.

Age is not all decay it is the ripening, the swelling, of the fresh life within, that withers and bursts the husk.