Childhood itself is scarcely more lovely than a cheerful, kindly, sunshiny old age.

In my older age, I've learned to take things slower, because I used to be that total-fall-in-love-after-a-day guy.

You watch yourself age and it's hard to feel like a sex symbol.

I like to be alone so I can write. But focus can hurt you. I don't want to be some stress casualty in early middle age.

I'd always thought the Rats were good fun, but one of the very nice things about being of Saga age is that I can actually look back and think, When I was younger I was in a great band. It was always a collective thing.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

My first job was in retail at the age of 14, and I have worked in the industry ever since.

I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age, who are still in the process of forming themselves as women, and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

Old age and sickness bring out the essential characteristics of a man.