No sociologist should think himself too good, even in his old age, to make tens of thousands of quite trivial computations in his head and perhaps for months at a time.
One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.
When I got into the Beatles, I must have only been about six or seven but old enough to take notice. We used to have an old radiogram which, for readers of a certain age, was like a big cabinet thing with a record player inside it.
My life, I realize suddenly, is July. Childhood is June, and old age is August, but here it is, July, and my life, this year, is July inside of July.
With George Clooney, the distinctive quality is a unique kind of American phoniness - charming because it's aware of itself as phony. It's as old as old Huck Finn, but, in our age, it has migrated from the fringes to the center.
A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.
While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that in my old age I wanted to be stepped on by an elephant while making love.
The value of old age depends upon the person who reaches it. To some men of early performance it is useless. To others, who are late to develop, it just enables them to finish the job.
Those who are born of parents broken with old age, or of such as are not yet ripe or are too young, or of drunkards, soft or effeminate men, want a great and liberal ingenuity or wit.
In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great discovery that liberty is a product of order.
I am a much happier 27-year-old than I was at 20 years old. I am so fortunate because I have an amazing family, amazing friends and a great support system.
I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.
It's sad to see old friends have to move away, but at the same time, you know the retirement home is the best place for them.
the difference between the old and the new education being) in a word, the old was a kind of propagation - men transmitting manhood to men; the new is merely propaganda.
It is one of the major tragedies that nothing is more discomforting than the hearty affection of the Old Friends who never were friends.
Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
I want to look into a mirror that will love my own reflection harder than I hate myself.
The moon is too old, the flower is too old;even the sunset is not enough. The only relevant metaphor for you is your mirror image.
. . . Most falls aren't free -- there is always the tension, it seems to me, between what you are falling from and what you are falling to.
Even a nonbeliever might find it useful to model himself after God. Very useful, in fact.
Did I just get psychically pimp-slapped by a little old lady?
