As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.
Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (ed. Penguin Group USA, 1998) - ISBN: 9780140276954