“I am commanding you, as an older and wiser brother, to get over here, get on this caterpillar, and ride to the top of this mushroom with me.”
“As you get older, you don't get wiser. You get irritable.”
“Getting older makes you no wiser, but number of lessons that learned.”
“If you're not going to get any wiser, what's the point of getting older?”
“I'm not sure you get wiser as you get older, Starling, but you do learn to dodge a certain amount of hell.”
“It gave me a strange feeling, and the rest of that night I didn’t say much, but merely sat there and drank, trying to decide if I was getting older and wiser, or just plain old.”