“It is remarkably precocious when a person accomplishes anything after the age of thirty.”

“It is not easy to be crafty and winsome at the same time, and few accomplish it after the age of six.”

“I used the phrase 'a certain age.' What I mean by this is the age people are in their heads. It's usually thirty to thirty-four. Nobody is forty in their head. When it comes to your internal age, chin wattles and relentless liver spots mean nothing.”

“People naturally pay their respects to the dead. The person had, after all, just accomplished the personal, profound feat of dying.”

“I've always felt there are two things a woman should never do after the age of thirty-five: stand in natural light and have a baby...”

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”