“We will grow old, and older,One of us will die, and then the other.The earth itself will be impaledby sunspokes. It doesn't matter.We have been imprinted on the protons of energy herself,”
“It is best as one grows older to strip oneself of possessions, to shed oneself downward like a tree, to be almost wholly earth before one dies.”
“Life doesn't take itself seriously for long. Joy leaves an imprint even in the hardest sorrow.”
“Life etches itself onto our faces as we grow older, showing our violence, excesses or kindnesses.”
“Growing older is not upsetting; being perceived as old is.”
“It is the nature of a man as he grows older, a small bridge in time, to protest against change, particularly change for the better. But it is true that we have exchanged corpulence for starvation, and either one will kill us.”