“The very young and the very old often saw what others could not. Or would not.”
“I came into the world very young, in an age that was very old.”
“She looks like a very young old person, or a very old young person; but then, she's looked that way ever since she was two.”
“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.”
“He was one of those men who, as in youth they are never very young, so in age are they never very old.”
“It is often said that New York is a city for only the very rich and the very poor. It is less often said that New York is also, at least for those of us who came there from somewhere else, a city for only the very young.”