What description of clouds and sunsets was to the old novelist, description of scientific apparatus and methods is to the modern Scientific Detective writer.
I loved Julia Louis-Dreyfus's show 'The New Adventures of Old Christine.' That made me laugh out loud. She's like Lucille Ball. She's brilliant.
I find old copies of National Gallery catalogues, which are written in the dryest possible prose, infinitely soothing.
Matter fakes, face fades. Under sheets, Fake bades. Sick old spell, coldy carries, Heat-tranced ghost, living buried.
You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.
These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.
When 'The Pacific' came around, I had to audition the old-fashioned way. It was the casting director and then the producer and then another producer and another producer and then Spielberg and Hanks.
Those who rhapsodize about the ease and joy of childhood have perhaps forgotten what it's like to be 12 years old.
For email, the old postcard rule applies. Nobody else is supposed to read your postcards, but you'd be a fool if you wrote anything private on one.
You didn't learn the Bible as a Fundamentalist. You learned fragments of Old Testament legalism mixed with Behaviorism & Nietzschean ethics
My mother... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
Heartbreak comes in different sizes, and the departure of an 18-year-old child for a far college has to be treated as a very benign form of the disease.
Jewish and Palestinian nationalism are virtually contemporaneous, and grew out of the disruptions that created new national movements from the ruins of the old empires / i.
My house looks like it was decorated by a 14-year old with a platinum American Express card.
I weighed 245 pounds when I was 16 years old. I had a 44-inch waist. And that was two years before 'Dukes of Hazzard' started.
But the citizens of Cincinnati loved their Reds because they won, no matter what their addresses had been the year before. They rooted for the Old-English 'C' on the players' shirts.
The heroes of our youth grow old - 'the boys of summer in their ruin', in Dylan Thomas's verse - yet we seem the same.
Not only am I trying to be a daddy, but also a friend, not be the old fogey that's slowing everybody else down... not for a while, at least.
I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.
Sometimes, you'll watch the news and you'll see two-year-old boys in South Africa, wearing 'Spider-Man' t-shirts. It's such a global phenomenon.
I believe that Britain is becoming more class-conscious, and I quake at the very idea of Old Etonians ruling the world again.
