It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

getting old means getting lucky sometimes means sometimes you learn & along with other sweeter acquisitions you learn that ninetenths of what goes down is bullshit that there’s just no way to be with people...

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

Aging is a mortal term that my immortal spirit doesn’t quite grasp.

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

Maybe it’s true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

You used to get it in your fishnetsNow you only get it in your nightdressDiscarded all the naughty nights for niceness……Remeber when the boys were all electric?

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind…

[she felt] sorry for herself, for getting older, for being mortal, for all the music she still wanted to hear, the books she intended to read, the places she had meant to visit, the things...

When younger, he had been fun-loving to the point of tedium.