“Veal is a very young beef and, like a very young girlfriend, it's cute but boring and expensive.”
“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.”
“Confusion is a luxury which only the very, very young can possibly afford and you are not that young anymore”
“To be young, really young, takes a very long time. Picasso”
“She was young and very beautiful, but pale, like the grey pallor of death.”
“Occasionally the very youngness of the young moved him to charity--they had no sense of the swiftness of life, nor of its limits. The years would pass like weeks, and loves would pass too, or else grow sour.”