“At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.”
“Our epoch has been give many nicknames--the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey.”
“How wonderful it is to by my age - our age - and learn you were wrong about such a fundamental thing. ”
“Every age has its massive moral blind spots. We might not see them, but our children will.”
“If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents by their young.”
“The industrial age had only just begun; the planet had reached its Best Before date.”