“One becomes more of a shit as one gets older.”
“I enjoy the spring more than the autumn now. One does, I think, as one gets older.”
“It seems the older people get, the more shit they ignore. Or, like Dad, they pay attention to stuff that distracts them from the more important things that they’re ignoring.”
“Because we're human. Like everyone else. And the older we get, the more human we get. The more human we get, the more painful everything becomes. ”
“The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.”
“Hardest of all, as one becomes older, is to accept that sapient remarks can be drawn from the most unwelcome or seemingly improbable sources, and that the apparently more trustworthy sources can lead one astray.”