It was thus, Archer reflected, that New York managed its transitions; conspiring to ignore them till they were well over, and then, in all good faith, imagining that they had taken place in a preceding age.
Reading books in one's youth is like looking at the moon through a crevice; reading books in middle age is like looking at the moon in one's courtyard; and reading books in old age is like looking at the moon on an open terrace.
Everyone has this notion of the Middle Ages - certainly the early Middle Ages - as being this very superstitious era. I think that all eras are superstitious. We all have our magical thinking.
At a certain age you're always uncertain how other people will take you.
I was watching Orson Welles and Jean Vigo films at a ridiculously young age.
Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
We put so much pressure on kids to excel in school at such a young age.
I didn't have a normal background - I was completely demented from a very early age!
Memory is the first casualty of middle age, if I remember correctly.
When you get to a certain age, the work begins to thin out.
In a machine age, dressmaking is one of the last refuges of the human, the personal, the inimitable.
Our old age was in some respects the happiest period of life.
I think there is a lot made out of age, and what age you feel.
How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
In my old age, I'll be in L.A.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
I realized at a young age that sequence in an album is almost as important as the songs that are on the album.
Middle Age - later than you think and sooner than you expect.
Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.
I must confess, I was born at a very early age.
