“Perhaps at twenty, one is naturally curious about life, but at thirty, simply suspicious of anyone who still has one.”

“Every man is enthusiastic at times. One man has enthusiasm for thirty minutes, another man has it for thirty days. But it is the man who has it for thirty years who makes a success in life.”

“Tillie studied her mother’s face. The face which had seen thirty-seven years of life. Twenty-one years of marriage. The birth of ten babies. The death of one.”

“Sometimes one gets the idea that life thinks it's still living in Paris in the thirties.”

“But she has always felt that her thirties were going to be her best decade, and since she is still lingering in her twenties, there is no hurry.”

“Until you're about the age of twenty you read everything, and you like it simply because you are reading it. then between twenty and thirty you pick up what you want, and you read the best, you read all the great works.after that you sit and wait for them to be written. But you know the least know, the least famous writers, they are the better ones.”