...all she wanted was a button she could push to pause her age, just for a little while, a few years, while she got used to the idea.

You know you're old when you're watching Karate Kid and you realize you're more attracted to Mr. Miagi than Ralph Macchio.

I am quite content to be in my thirties, and nothing affirms that more than being around people in their late teens and early twenties.

It's paradoxical that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

At a certain age [...] you start thinking you might have learned something when you were young if you hadn't already been so smart.

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 women ranged in age, but they were all old enough to know that in the currency of friendship, empathy is more valuable than accuracy.

Thirty--the promise of a decade of loneliness, a thinning list of single men to know, a thinning brief-case of enthusiasm, thinning hair.

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.

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’m 32 years old and I’m tired. It’s because I haven’t drank enough coffee. If I had, I’d probably only be 29.

My grandmother started walking five miles a day when she was sixty. She's ninety-seven now, and we don't know where the heck she is.

... active wisdom--an entire cohort with something new to offer to the world as years of experience combined with continuing health. [p. 52]

Even from a very early age, I knew I didn't want to miss out on anything life had to offer just because it might be considered dangerous.

We have lunch at ten-forty-five,” Colin said. A stupidly early lunch. At our school, the older you get, the stupider your lunch period.