We looked at each other and said at our age, why should we wait? I really honestly feel Bob would say Ken would be ideal for me.

I was stunned. I can't remember if I said anything right then.

We certainly aren't going into anything with our eyes closed. We know what we're doing. Why wait when you're in your 80s?

Mama and I sat on a burping bus full of chickens in cages, and round-eyed babies on round mothers' laps. (The Pinata-Maker's Daughter)

What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.

No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.