“Old age began with one's 1st fall and the death came with the 2nd .”

“He thought the column was magnificent, everything it said about old age was the best he had ever read, and it made no sense to end it with a decision that seemed more like a civil death.”

“It was a meditation on life, love, old age, death: ideas that had often fluttered around her head like nocturnal birds but dissolved into a trickle of feathers when she tried to catch hold of them.”

“Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”

“Why were you so old when we met? I answered with the truth: Age isn't how old you are but how old you feel.”

“Love was always love anytine anyplace but it was more solid the closer it came to death .”