How incessant and great are the ills with which a pr...

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you...

Discrimination due to age is one of the great tragedies of modern life. The desire to work and be useful is what makes life worth living, and to be...

Our Age of Anxiety is, in great part, the result of trying to do today's job with y...

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic a...

I'm moving into that eldership age, you know? I'm at the 'wise woman' age where it's not about learning, but utilizing the information that I have in a way t...

As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I di...

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original...

We live in an age when the traditional great subjects - the human form, the landscape, even newer traditions such as ab...

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find...

People who think that Sylvia Plath was a poor, sensitive poet are not getting that she had great amounts of ambition and anger that moved her along, or she wouldn't have...

In my youth I stressed freedom, and in my old age I stress order. I have made the great...