I miss being the age when I thought I’d have my shit together by the time I was the age I am now..

I do not think much of ages. People are people. What does it matter how old or young they are? It is a category, and I do not like categories. It is a sort of...

I was tired of seeing the Graces always depicted as beautiful young things. I think wisdom comes with age and life and pain. And knowing what matters.

Growing up doesn’t mean that you are older than someone, it means that you are no longer an amateur.

And still the brain continues to yearn, continues to burn, foolishly, with desire. My old man’s brain is mocked by a body that still longs to stretch in the sun and form a beautiful shape...

I have lived to see that being seventeen is no protection against becoming seventy, but to know this needs the experience of a lifetime, for no imagination copes with it.

Young men think old men fools, old men know young men to be so.

We’re so old that the winds of age echo along our ribs and pick at our eye sockets. We could be gone tomorrow. A chill, say, or a little slip on the cliff side. I...

Old age isn’t a battle; old age is a massacre.

As you have been on the road, what have you been hearing from readers about A RELIABLE WIFE?RG: The most interesting question came from a young man in his 30s who asked me to discuss...

Find answers in your weakness and surprise in your strength and always remember the golden rule every failure has HOPES

If we are to use the words ‘childish’ and ‘infantile’ as terms of disapproval, we must make sure that they refer only to those characteristics of childhood which we become better and happier by outgrowing....

Výborně. Sen každé ženy.

All your convictions come back to mock you when you reach a certain age.

As to the charge that I am a cranky old man, I plead guilty.

The best thing about being 40 is that you can appreciate 25-year-old men more.

By the time you’re thirty, your worst enemy is yourself.

I want my last 50 years on this earth to be amazing. Of course, I still want to have 150 years before those last 50 years begin.

Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.

England is not the jewelled isle of Shakespeare’s muchd message, nor is it the inferno depicted by Dr Goebbels. More than either it resembles a family, a rather stuffy Victorian family, with not many black...

For us lads of eighteen they ought to have been mediators and guides to the world of maturity, the world of work, of duty, of culture, of progress — to the future.

We know what we should do. Age is no excuse. Do we go to others for permission or for discipline?

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else’s sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hurts to bend your elbow; your...

The sudden surge of hormones at teenage age will continue to play an important part in the life of young people

You never could tell when someone would stop growing old in Neverland. For Tik Tok, it had been after wrinkles had walked long deep tracks across his face, but for many people, it was much...

Love does not have gender. Love is not exclusive! Our hearts have the capacity to love so many people. The only tragedy is when fear, cultural barriers, ridiculous misunderstandings, or arbitrary numbers prevent us from...

The name Mary Jo Quinn was written neatly in faded blue marker on the front of the scrapbook, its gray edges frayed with age and wear, as though it had been handled often. Such a...

With age comes wisdom, but sometimes age comes alone.

You aren’t really old until nothing is fun enough to make you forget the weather.

Unattached and aimless, these old men are always infatuated with little certainties and regularities such as those that ordered the life of Mr. Krupper as seen from outside. Habit is living. Anything unexpected reminds them...

In choosing a hypothesis there is no virtue in being timid. I clearly would have been burned at the stake in another age.

Children’s and YA books are about being brave and kind, about learning wisdom and love, about that journey into and through maturity that we all keep starting, and starting again, no matter how old we...

The richest people in the world build networks and invest in people; everyone else looks for work and invests in survival.

My child, I know you’re not a childBut I still see you running wildBetween those flowering trees.Your sparkling dreams, your silver laughYour wishes to the stars above Are just my memories.And in your eyes the...

Avoid the stage of old age sit in the audience, it’s all the rage

People talk to old people like they’re children.’Oh you’re very old aren’t you?’ Yeah I’m old. I’m not stupid.

Old men tend to forget what thought was like in their youth; they forget the quickness of the mental jump, the daring of the youthful intuition, the agility of the fresh insight. They become accustomed...

You may be temporarily young, but you’ll forever be childish.” Then I put gum in her hair.

Sometimes there were kids who were simply born to be thirty, or fifty, or seventy; I could see their unfinished teenaged faces overlaid with the transparencies of their aged selves and had to resist telling...

How many birthdays can you fit in a shoebox? I guess that depends both on how old you are, and what size shoe you wear.

I’m a year older than 365 days ago, and I’m having trouble bending my knees and my lower back is killing me. Everything reminds me of death. Especially bending over all day to steal the...

Eustasia Johannsen was ready. Anyone could see that. Everything about her ancient self gave evidence to it: Her skin, wrinkled and transparent… But mainly, it was her eyes. They were drawn into her face as...

I’d like to invent a product that’ll turn 18-year-olds into 21-year-olds, and sell it in front of bars.

I sold my first short story to Pyramid Press, where it was chiseled onto fifteen slabs of granite, and for which I was paid nine goats.

The day you lose your sense of wonder is the day you grow old.

Sorting gets harder as time goes on–it requires a sort of ruthless decisiveness, while indecision results in endless dithering. Five moves, they say, equal a fire. But those who haven’t moved may begin to need...

Death was constant, unprejudiced to age, race, or creed.

The other day as I was stepping out of Star Grocery on Claremont Avenue with some pork ribs under my arm, the Berkeley sky cloudless, a smell of jasmine in the air, a car driving...

Childhood isn’t just those years. It’s also the opinions you form about them afterward. That’s why our childhoods are so long.

I am not young enough to know everything.