Old age has its pleasures, which, though different, are not less than the pleasures of youth.
What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.
Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.
I grew up in the South, and our way of dealing with each other was teasing, ribbing, making fun and scrapping in the street. Criticism doesn't bother me so much. It actually made me, when I was younger, more aggressive. But you get into middle age, a...
I played Vegas at the age of 16 years old, in 1959.
You live in a deranged age, more deranged that usual, because in spite of great scientific and technological advances, man has not the faintest idea of who he is or what he is doing.
The various forms of intellectual activity which together make up the culture of an age, move for the most part from different starting-points, and by unconnected roads.
I wrote my first play at the age of 10, 55 years ago, and I've always found it a fantastic relief to imagine I know what things would be like from the point of view of other individuals and to send out signals from where I actually am not. Playwright...
I shot my first lion at the age of 14 when a pride threatened my father's livestock while he was away on holiday.
I get all fired up about aging in America.
The criminal law needs to be improved to meet new forms of crime, but to denounce financial devices which are useful and legitimate because use is made of them for fraud, is ridiculous and unworthy of the age in which we live.
I find age such a foreign concept. I have to be reminded. I still have the extraordinary feeling of adventure, striking out into unknown fields.
The golden age is before us, not behind us.
A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.
The good writing of any age has always been the product of someone's neurosis.
I like texting as much as the next kidult - and embrace it as yet more evidence, along with email, that we live now in the post-aural age, when an unsolicited phone call is, thankfully, becoming more and more understood to be an unspeakable social so...
It could be argued that every age gets the comfort savagery writer it deserves.
What fiction offers us is an intimacy shorn of the messy contingencies of human existence - gender, race, class or age. Those moments of transcendence when we exclaim 'You know exactly what I mean!' depend for much of their force on the anonymous cha...
I've reached the age of self-knowledge, so I don't know anything. People who claim that they know something are responsible for most of the fuss in the world.
I've always despised old people. I got angry at my father when he began to show signs of age.
Because of Mozart, it's all over after the age of seven.
