Men do not quit playing because they grow old; they grow old because they quit playing.

I grow old … I grow old …I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled.

Nothing comes back. The eye sees for a moment, the ear hears, but look, now it is gone.

Maturity/experience: the beguiling texture of stones subjected to years of furious seas.

My wife is younger. At one point, I was twice her age. Of course, I was six at the time.

The really frightening thing about middle age is that you know you'll grow out of it.

Never too late to learn some embarrassingly basic, stupidly obvious things about oneself.

As we age we begin to grasp at youthful bliss like a life raft in a sea of harsh reality.

Age had drained the color from her eyes the way darkness drains the color from everything

I tried being 29, and it worked for about a year, but finally I just had to get rid of it.

If I aged twice as fast and lived twice as long as a normal person, would I be Wisdom Man?

I reckon responsible behavior is something to get when you grow older. Like varicose veins.

Wearing glasses for reading meant surrendering to old age without the least bit of a fight.

The value of marriage is not that adults produce children, but that children produce adults.

Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)