At 88 years old - with every intention of living decades longer - I'm still running a company, writing articles, launching new ventures, and fully enjoying life.
My first novel took 12 years to complete because life got in my way.
Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
I can't maintain the body of a 16-year-old anymore. That's just a really boring life to me. You really just cannot do anything fun, ever.
I think the first 10 years of my daughter's life were my mother's happiest, because she could finally have carefree time with a kid.
I started doing improv when I was 8 years old, so it's always been in my life. I would feel naked without it.
I was raised by a single mother and I've been in a 10-year relationship with my girlfriend. My whole life I've been surrounded by women.
I've led this empty life for over forty years and now I can pass that heritage on and ensure that the misery will continue for at least one more generation.
But our waking life, and our growing years, were for the most part spent in the kitchen, and until we married, or ran away, it was the common room we shared.
I've been working so hard for the past eight years and I'm tired - but I'm also deliciously tired because what a wonderful life I've lived.
We should all spend some time of our life doing service to our country. To me, I would give up a couple of years.
The weird thing about grief, for me at least, was when each of my parents died, for a year or two afterwards I was pretty wildly brave - just willing to take life on.
I don't want to pack everything into one year and then do nothing the rest of my life. I think it's important to do things bit by bit.
The war years were the most difficult time of my life. There was real famine in Moscow. The water froze inside the houses. There was no heat.
In the years just after 9/11, even being breathed on by a suspected terrorist could land you in extralegal detention for the rest of your life.
My parents were married my whole life until my father passed away a few years ago.
If you're going to get engaged make sure you've talked to your partner about life together in the years to come.
I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.
We spent most of our life almost like street rats just running around the street until we were ten years old.
I don't want to have that thing where I make an album and then I'm super-constantly present in everyone's life for three years, and then gone for the next three.
Music is my life, professionally, for nearly 60 years. To be recognized by the academy is still the highest honor.
