[T]he deepest form of pain comes out as silence.
The one duty we owe to history is to rewrite it.
If you can't change your fate, change your attitude.
That's the privilege of old age: You don't have to remember.
One hour of right-down love is worth an age of dully living on.
Alas, after a certain age every man is responsible for his face.
Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.
Writers obviously have to bear witness to the harsh face of the age.
We live in an age of universal investigation, and of exploration of the sources of all movements.
Can a moment of madness make up for an age of consent?
Admiration of the proletariat, like that of dams, power stations, and aeroplanes, is part of the ideology of the machine age.
In youth we run into difficulties. In old age difficulties run into us.
People tend to become more emotionally intelligent as they age and mature.
Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically.
Old age and treachery will always beat youth and exuberance.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
I knew from the age of seven that I was meant to be a writer.
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
I started writing seriously about 1960, at the fairly advanced age of 30.
There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.
Not to expose your true feelings to an adult seems to be instinctive from the age of seven or eight onwards.
