“To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.”

“I wish you would tell me your secret. To get back my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable.”

“Youth is a circumstance you can't do anything about. The trick is to grow up without getting old.”

“I am a degenerate modern semi-intellectual who would die if I did not get my early morning cup of tea and my New Statesman every Friday. Clearly I do not, in a sense, 'want' to return to a simpler, harder, probably agricultural way of life. In the same sense I don't 'want' to cut down on my drinking, to pay my debts, to take enough exercise, to be faithful to my wife, etc. etc. But in another and more permanent sense I do want these things, and perhaps in the same sense I want a civilization in which 'progress' is not definable as making the world safe for little fat men.”

“I would have done anything. Anything to get back to you. I can’t say I’m sorry for that.”