I cherished her individuality, that spark of independence no child should lose to life's restrictions and parameters.

Young things like you don't need any ornaments but those you wear to-night: youth, health, intelligence, and modesty.

I just wish you could see my demons for what they are, and lay here beside me on the floor. No words. Just your presence.

Life goes on and on after one's luck has run out. Youthfulness persists, alas, long after one has ceased to be young.

She was dry, dry inside like a ten-thousand-year-old tomb, with the last of her life barely dampening the dirt underneath.

33 old people went into a nursing home, and only 34 people came out alive. One old woman died while giving birth to twins.

‎"She was not a little girl heart-broken about him; she was a grown woman smiling at it all, but they were wet smiles.

He had never before felt so self-consciously young, nor experienced such appetite, such impatience for the story to begin.

Trust me, somewhere over the rainbow, happily ever after, etcetera, etcetera - looks far less likely in your mid-thirties.

Sometimes you just have to jump in a mud puddle because it's there. Never get so old that you forget about having fun.

The age of the pulp magazine was the last in which youngsters, to get their primitive material, were forced to be literate.

He does not despise real woods because he has read of enchanted woods; the reading makes all real woods a little enchanted.

I have a friend who likes to date younger women because their stories are shorter. Old men like us, our stories are longer.

Behold yon rough and flinty roadWhere youth, now youth no more,Gropes whining, seeking crumbs of loavesHe cast away of yore.

Always been a man of few words. I'd rather move to talk. I learned to speak of my own accord or when spoken to early on.