“One discovery of being old is that it’s not really what I would have imagined. In younger years, I would have thought that, heading for seventy-seven, I would sense my vitality starting to slip away. The truth is that even now, I feel the force of life bounding through me as unequivocally as it did when I was a six-year-old. The maxim is that if things are going well in a family, there will be three generations living fully.”
