I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.

We approached Athens from the north in early twilight, climbing a hill. When we reached its peak, we were dazzled to look down and see the Acropolis struck by one beam of the setting sun, as if posing for a picture.

When I lived summers at my grandparents' farm, haying with my grandfather from 1938 to 1945, my dear grandmother Kate cooked abominably. For noon dinners, we might eat three days of fricasseed chicken from a setting hen that had boiled twelve hours.

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

Death is not extinguishing the light; it is only putting out the lamp because the dawn has come.

If I ever completely lost my nervousness I would be frightened half to death.

Writing never comes easy. The difference between Page 2 and Page Nothing is the difference between life and death.

When you're writing about superpowers, you're writing about power. When you're writing about immortals, you're writing about mortality.