what i want when i'm 64:

"The stories I have called "improvisations" really are that...I wrote them to please my wife, over a great many years. When we were first married, after we had gone to bed I would tell her a story in the dark. They came from I have no idea where. Sometimes I fell asleep in the middle of a story and he would shake me and say "What happened next?" and I would struggle up through layers of oblivion and tell her."
—William Maxwell