“It occurred to me that among the charms of old age are the provocations our young female friends permit themselves because they think we are out of commission.”

“The young should not think of themselves as immature and the elderly need not view themselves as feeble. Our minds control our bodies. Have no age, transcend both past and future, and enter into naka-ima—the “eternal present.”

“Yes, and because we grow old we become more and more the stuff our forbears put into us. I can feel his savagery strengthen in me. We think we are so individual and so misunderstood when we are young; but the nature our strain of blood carries is inside there, waiting, like our skeleton.”

“It occured to me that we will never be young again.”

“Female friendships are special. We expect our girlfriends to live up to a higher standard. Guys can get away with any old BS because, hell, they're guys. They think with their penises and can't help it.”

“We retire too early and we die too young, our prime of life should be in the 70's and old age should not come until we are almost 100.”