Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties read more

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows older.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and read more

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.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

Years and sins are always more than owned.

Years and sins are always more than owned.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

Old age is fifteen years older than I am.

All diseases run into one, old age.

All diseases run into one, old age.