“The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.”
“Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?”
“I seem to walk on a transparent surface and see beneath me all the bones and wrecks and tentacles that will eventually claim me: in other words, old age, incapacity, loneliness, death of others & myself...”
“Prudence is a rich, ugly old maid courted by incapacity.”
“I'm too old to be your adolescent experiment."Rory called back, "I'm too old to be an experimenting adolescent."Drawn Together”
“Our civilization survives in the complacency of cowardly or malignant minds -- a sacrifice to the vanity of aging adolescents”