“Nothing in the universe— be it the newborn infant or the universe itself— is without age.”— Robert Pogue Harrison, amazon.com
“Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.”— Anthony Powell, amazon.com
“Youth can not know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.”— J.K. Rowling, amazon.com
“Hopefully as you get older, you start to learn how to live with your demon. It’s hard at first. Some people give their demon so much room that there is no space in their head or bed for love. They feed their demon and it gets really strong and then it makes them stay in abusive relationships or star…”— Amy Poehler, amazon.com
“When you are 80 years old, and in a quiet moment of reflection narrating for only yourself the most personal version of your life story, the telling that will be most compact and meaningful will be the series of choices you have made. In the end, we are our choices.”— Jeff Bezos, businessinsider.com
“His normally gentle demeanor and ironic banter hid a violent temper and a harshly self-critical streak. When challenged in some unexpected fashion, he could become hysterical, literally vibrating and shaking with furry. His perfectionism, which would later prevent him from publishing a large portion…”— Sylvia Nasar, amazon.com
“It is in the twenties that the actual momentum of life begins to slacken, and it is a simple soul indeed to whom as many things are significant and meaningful at thirty as at ten years before. At thirty an organ-grinder is a more or less moth-eaten man who grinds an organ — and once he was an organ-…”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com