“People over forty can seldom be permanently convinced of anything. At eighteen our convictions are hills from which we look; at forty-five they are caves in which we hide.”

“You heard people say forty was the new thirty and fifty was the new forty and sixty was the new forty-five, but you never heard anybody say eighty was the new anything. Eighty was just eighty.”

“Between the ages of twenty and forty we are engaged in the process of discovering who we are, which involves learning the differences between accidental limitations which it is our duty to outgrow and the necessary limitations of our nature beyond which we cannot trespass with impunity.”

“Manicures: Which are basically just holding hands with a stranger for forty-five minutes whilst listening to Enya.”

“I'm a woman. Forty-five in female years (which is about a hundred and thirty in male years - bastards).”

“there are only forty people in the world and five of them are hamburgers”