Index

xiii: "Do not go gentle into that good night," Dylan Thomas, from The Poems of Dylan Thomas (New Directions, 1952).

3: "The first requirement of any society," Joseph Campbell, The Mythic Dimension: Selected Essays 1958–1987.

6: "Because it does not know," Ram Dass, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Riverhead Books, 2000). 13: "Wholly unprepared, we embark," Carl Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933).

21: "The call rings up the curtain," Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces (Princeton University Press, 1949). 17: "Life can only be understood backwards," Søren Kierkegaard, Philosophical Fragments.

17: T. S. Eliot, "Little Giddings" (1942), © 1969 Valerie Eliot.

20: James Hillman, The Force of Character: And the Lasting Life (Ballantine Books, 1999).

21: "Being old is not the same," Betty Friedan, The Fountain of Age (Simon & Schuster, 1993).

21: Jane Juska, A Round-Heeled Woman: My Late-Life Adventures in Sex and Romance (Villard Books, 2003).

24: Rabbi Zalman Schachter-Shalomi, From Age-ing to Sage-ing: A Profound New Vision of Growing Older (Warner Books, 1997). 24: "The thing is to understand myself," Søren Kierkegaard, Søren Kierkegaard Journal and Papers, edited by Howard Hong (Indiana University Press, 1976).

25: "It is a great art to saunter," Henry David Thoreau, Walden (1854).

30: David Suzuki and Peter Knudtson eds., Wisdom of the Elders: Sacred Native Stories of Nature (Bantam, 1992).

34: "When you learn how to die," Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie: An Old Man, a Young Man, and Life's Greatest Lesson (Doubleday, 1997).

35: Great American Think-Off, www.think-off.org

57: "Situations in which we become dependent," Ram Dass, Still Here: Embracing Aging, Changing, and Dying (Riverhead Books, 2000).

60: "You cannot step twice," Heraclitus (544-483 BC), Fragments.

65: "Imagination is everything," Albert Einstein, What I Believe (1933).

71: About Schmidt (New Line Cinema Productions, 2002). 78: George E. Vaillant, Aging Well (Little Brown, 2002).

100: "Nothing great," Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles," in Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (New American Library, 1983).

107: Theodore Roszak, America the Wise: The Longevity Revolution and the True Wealth of Nations (Houghton Mifflin, 1998).

107: "I told you to take a leave," Louis Begley, About Schmidt (Ballantine Books, 1997).

108: Bill Cosby, Time Flies (Doubleday, 1987).

108: Ken Dychtwald, Age Wave (Tarcher, 1989).

108: "We live in a strange land," Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Who Dies: An Investigation of Conscious Living and Conscious Dying (Anchor Books, 1982).

109: "The real dilemma of existence," Ernest Becker, The Denial of Death (Free Press, 1997).

112: "Death is not the enemy," Stephen and Ondrea Levine, Who Dies.

116: "Probably in every concentration camp," Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning: An Introduction to Logotherapy (Beacon Press, 1962).

118: "Deep self-renewal," Roger L. Gould, Transformations: Growth and Change in Adult Life (Simon & Schuster, 1979).

118: Alex Comfort, Say Yes to Old Age (Crown, 1990).

120: Alice Seybold, The Lovely Bones: A Novel (Little Brown, 2002).

123: "The thing a person's gotta have," John Gardner, The Art of Living (Knopf, 1981).

125: "This is the true joy in life," George Bernard Shaw, Epistle dedication to Man and Superman (1903).

129: "Every human being," C. G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933).

132: "Old men ought ought to be explorers," T. S. Eliot, "East Coker" (1940).

136: "That which youth found," C. G. Jung, Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933).

139: "Grow old along with me," Robert Browning, "Rabbi Ben Ezra" (1864).