“A person of little knowledge Grows old as a plough-ox grows old.His fleshes increases; His wisdom does not increase.”

“As a man's knowledge grows, and his power increases, the road he takes grows ever narrower, until at last he does only and wholly what he must.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven't committed.”

“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”

“Dylan [Thomas] I knew before and after he became famous. He was splendid, rapacious, demanding as a young man. To much has been written about him for me to add to the legend. As that legend began to grow in his lifetime I learned to separate him from his poetry, to find him in person increasingly tedious and his poems increasingly exciting, both in print and when he was reading them.”