“Inside every seventy-year-old is a thirty-five-year-old asking, 'What happened?”

“The truth is, part of me is every age. I’m a three-year-old, I’m a five-year-old, I’m a thirty-seven-year-old, I’m a fifty-year-old. I’ve been through all of them, and I know what it’s like. I delight in being a child when it’s appropriate to be a child. I delight in being a wise old man when it’s appropriate to be a wise old man. Think of all I can be! I am every age, up to my own.”

“I’m thirty,” I said. “I’m five years too old to lie to myself and call it honor”

“My first big break came when I was five years old. It's taken me more than seventy years to realise that. You see, at five I first learnt to read. It's that simple and it's that profound.”

“That's what happens when you're thirty-seven years old: you do the things you always did but the result is somehow different.”

“Every five-year-old kid should have a pair of happy pajamas. (217)”