“Old people, with other old people, are not so old.”

“It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.”

“it is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things...”

“...they enjoyed the miracle of loving each other as much at the table as in bed, and they grew to be so happy that even when they were two worn-out old people they kept on blooming like children and playing together like dogs.”

“He thought that the world would make more rapid progress without the burden of old people.”

“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.”

“It was the first time in a half century that they had been so close and had enough time to look at each other with some serenity and they had seen each other for what they were: two old people, ambushed by death, who had nothing in common except the mercy of an ephemeral past that was no longer theirs but belonged to two young people who had vanished and who could have been their grandchildren.”