Obscenity is whatever happens to shock some elderly and ignorant magistrate.

At my advanced age – I’m now an octogenarian – I’m constantly amazed by the number of people who want to take my picture.

Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They’ll tell you.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

Generally, the younger the victim, the greater the grief. Yet even when the elderly or infirm have been afforded merciful relief, their loved ones are rarely ready to let go.

I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn’t learn something from him.

If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible, he is almost certainly right; but if he says that it is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked.

The person you consider ignorant and insignificant is the one who came from God, that he might learn bliss from grief and knowledge from gloom.

In ‚Huckleberry Finn,‘ I have drawn Tom Blankenship exactly as he was. He was ignorant, unwashed, insufficiently fed; but he had as good a heart as ever any boy had.

Obscenity comes from grime.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

An ignorant person is one who doesn’t know what you have just found out.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

One aged man – one man – can’t fill a house.

I became a journalist at 17. A few hours later, I saw my first dead body, which was somewhat… colourful. That’s when I learned you can go on throwing up after you run out of things to throw up.

We need somebody who’s got the heart, the empathy, to recognize what it’s like to be a young teenage mom, the empathy to understand what it’s like to be poor or African-American or gay or disabled or old – and that’s the criterion by which I’ll be selecting my judges.

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

I think that society has to be careful not to shift all of its resources to the elderly versus the young.

It’s true that obscenity is a matter of taste and in the eye of the beholder.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

Life is tragic. You are tiny and flawed and ignorant and weak, and everything else is huge, complex, and overwhelming.