“This was when I heard that the first symptom of old age is when you begin to resemble your father.”

“A man knows when he is growing old because he begins to look like his father.”

“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.”

“In the beginning, when the world was new and nothing had a name, my father took me to see the ice.”

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

“I would prove to the men how mistaken they are in thinking that they no longerfall in love when they grow old--not knowing that they grow old when they stopfalling in love.”

“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.”