Legend: A lie that has attained the dignity of age.

I’d always tried to resist playing the supervirility thing. I liked showing the vulnerability of age.

Forty is the old age of youth, fifty is the youth of old age.

It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour; riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.

I want to go when I want. It is tasteless to prolong life artificially. I have done my share; it is time to go. I will do it elegantly.

When you listen to Ray Charles, there’s never any doubt whose voice that is.

What I’ve discovered is that in art, as in music, there’s a lot of truth-and then there’s a lie. The artist is essentially creating his work to make this lie a truth, but he slides it in amongst all the others. The tiny little lie is the moment I live for, my moment. It’s the moment that the audience falls in love.

All labor that uplifts humanity has dignity and importance and should be undertaken with painstaking excellence.

I’ve never wanted to use my age as a gimmick, as something that would get me ahead of other people. I’ve wanted the music to do that.

I just love Bowie. I think he’s the ultimate inventor.

This is the first age that’s ever paid much attention to the future, which is a little ironic since we may not have one.

Where there is no work, there is no dignity.

The only time you really live fully is from thirty to sixty. The young are slaves to dreams; the old servants of regrets. Only the middle-aged have all their five senses in the keeping of their wits.

Vulnerability is not weakness. And that myth is profoundly dangerous.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

Honor has not to be won; it must only not be lost.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Talent is something that comes from within; it has nothing to do with age.

The post of honour is a private station.

If you young fellows were wise, the devil couldn’t do anything to you, but since you aren’t wise, you need us who are old.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Each age, it is found, must write its own books; or rather, each generation for the next succeeding.

Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success.

How I love David Bowie.

Dignity, and even holiness too, sometimes, are more questions of coat and waistcoat than some people imagine.

I will never turn Medicare into a voucher. No American should ever have to spend their golden years at the mercy of insurance companies. They should retire with the care and dignity they have earned.

At fifty everyone has the face he deserves.

Hesitation increases in relation to risk in equal proportion to age.

Age appears to be best in four things; old wood best to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust, and old authors to read.

My age is very insignificant to me. I don’t think about it, but the world does. The world likes young people in general.

How young can you die of old age?

In past generations, people would try to play younger than they really are. My trick is, I don’t try to play younger than I really am.

One should die proudly when it is no longer possible to live proudly.

If you have fear, you are bound by tradition, you follow some leader or guru. When you are bound by tradition, when you are afraid of your husband or your wife, you lose your dignity as an individual human being.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

America and Islam are not exclusive and need not be in competition. Instead, they overlap, and share common principles of justice and progress, tolerance and the dignity of all human beings.

Dissents speak to a future age.

The fact is, when men carry the same ideals in their hearts, nothing can isolate them – neither prison walls nor the sod of cemeteries. For a single memory, a single spirit, a single idea, a single conscience, a single dignity will sustain them all.

Basically, when you get to my age, you’ll really measure your success in life by how many of the people you want to have love you actually do love you.

I dislike Allegory – the conscious and intentional allegory – yet any attempt to explain the purport of myth or fairytale must use allegorical language.

At seventy-seven it is time to be in earnest.

The man who is a pessimist before 48 knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little.

He is really something. I love him. He is Sir Arsene Wenger.

I will far rather see the race of man extinct than that we should become less than beasts by making the noblest of God’s creation, woman, the object of our lust.

Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.

No woman should ever be quite accurate about her age. It looks so calculating.

The credit of advancing science has always been due to individuals and never to the age.

Most poets are young simply because they have not been caught up. Show me an old poet, and I’ll show you, more often than not, either a madman or a master… it’s when you begin to lie to yourself in a poem in order simply to make a poem that you fail. That is why I do not rework poems.

Age is whatever you think it is. You are as old as you think you are.

By indignities men come to dignities.

A man’s only as old as the woman he feels.

I have always reckoned the dignity of the republic of first importance and preferable to life.

Every legend, moreover, contains its residuum of truth, and the root function of language is to control the universe by describing it.

Any man or institution that tries to rob me of my dignity will lose.

As long as a woman can look ten years younger than her own daughter, she is perfectly satisfied.

Rashness belongs to youth; prudence to old age.

Men who have reached and passed forty-five, have a look as if waiting for the secret of the other world, and as if they were perfectly sure of having found out the secret of this.

I am 55 years old now. It takes three years to write one book. I don’t know how many books I will be able to write before I die. It is like a countdown. So with each book I am praying – please let me live until I am finished.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I think women love very hard. We love men. We just love with everything we have. And sometimes, I don’t know that that love is met with the type of dignity that we wish it would be met with.

I am not young but I feel young. The day I feel old, I will go to bed and stay there. J’aime la vie! I feel that to live is a wonderful thing.