I really think we should pass a law in every state, I don't care whether it takes the independence away from an old person or not. You shouldn't be driving a car if you're over the age of 80. Maybe even less than that.
The one thing that unifies men in a given age is not their individual philosophies but the dominant problem that these philosophies are designed to solve.
This. . . is an age of specialization, and in such an age the repertory theater is an anachronism, a ludicrous anachronism.
No one is born a writer; literacy is a peculiar mode of being, but I was all about stories from a very early age, before reading.
I think if you look at the failure of journalism in the modern age, then I don't want to be called a journalist.
I shall carry to the Catacombs of Age, Photographically lined On the tablet of my mind
We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.
It's amazing when you get to a certain age, and you talk about sleep in the same way you spoke about getting inebriated. . . I got eight hours last night. It was fantastic!
I would love to act. I probably won't make it to Hollywood at 42 years of age, but I'd love to act.
Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.
I was initiated as a Buddhist monk at the age of 19, but I think that initiation is simply a starting point.
You're 25 and you're looking at adults of your parents' age and older saying, "I don't want to live that way," and this is how it happens. It evolves slowly and it's not the result of any movement. It's just young people look at the way their parents are living and if they don't like it they don't want to duplicate it.
It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.
After fifty, one ceases to digest. As someone once said, "I just ferment my food now. "
Don't you see? It is a new age. It requires a new evil. And I am that new evil.
Whichever age you are, that's the best age. I'm a very "now" person.
The spirit of the age is not synonymous with what the public likes.
When I was young, the early death of my father cast a shadow over me - and I was afraid to die before all my literary plans came true. But between 30 and 40 years of age my attitude to death became quite calm and balanced. I feel it is a natural, but no means the final, milestone of one's existence.
Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.
We are the heirs of the ages
