The youthful body untouched decays the fastest, for no living hands record its splendor; and here youth and time are wasted.

Instead, he sat in the parlor of his family's Fifth Avenue mansion, growing older by the minute just like everybody else.

Sunrise paints the sky with pinks and the sunset with peaches. Cool to warm. So is the progression from childhood to old age.

I invent a reason for the Hertz attendant to start the rental car.I am seventy-five years old: this is not the reason I give.

Time erodes people, and when you are old enough you weigh nothing. It's comforting to know that I will never be as frail.

One of the odd things about middle age...was the strange decisions a man discovers he’s made by not really making them.

Never has nostalgia held stronger sway; never has the belief in the redemptive possibilities of the future seemed so laughable.

I think it's reasonable to suppose that one could oscillate between being biologically 20 and biologically 25 indefinitely.

Here is what happens in middle age: Some friends and acquaintances who were merely eccentric for years become unmistakably mad.

I want my last 50 years on this earth to be amazing. Of course, I still want to have 150 years before those last 50 years begin.

The problem with aging is not that it's one damn thing after another---it's every damn thing, all at once, all the time.

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

An old man with overalls walked by; I don't think old people should wear overalls; it makes them look like shrivelly toddlers.

Cosmetic surgery processes the bodies of woman-made women, who make up the vast majority of its patient pool, into man-made women.

It pleased him to see that things, and not only people, suffered the wear and tear of age. [53 yr old Inspector Bordelli's view]