"Anyone who writes an autobiographical work at the age of 34 is, at best, presumptuous. It occurred to me that it was time to set the record straight."
"TV is sort of the only way to go for an actress my age to make a decent salary; with independent films, you just can't."
"Young people, you need the wisdom of age, just as some of us older ones need your enthusiasm for life."
"Ours is essentially a tragic age, so we refuse to take it tragically."
"When you get to a certain age, there is no coming back."
"What really turns me on about technology is not just the ability to get more songs on MP3 players. The revolution - this revolution - is much bigger than that. I hope, I believe. What turns me on about the digital age, what excites me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing."
"Middle age is when you've met so many people that every new person you meet reminds you of someone else."
"I think that age as a number is not nearly as important as health. You can be in poor health and be pretty miserable at 40 or 50. If you're in good health, you can enjoy things into your 80s."
"I'm not busy... a woman with three children under the age of 10 wouldn't think my schedule looked so busy."
"American youth attributes much more importance to arriving at driver's license age than at voting age."
"To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough to make me ambitious."
"When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament, we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry, in painting, and in music."
"I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace."
"Revenge is the naked idol of the worship of a semi-barbarous age."
"One of the great challenges of our age, in which the tools of our productivity are also the tools of our leisure, is to figure out how to make more useful those moments of procrastination when we're idling in front of our computer screens."
"People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve."
"'Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age' was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instant's thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age."
"Of middle age the best that can be said is that a middle-aged person has likely learned how to have a little fun in spite of his troubles."
"We have been so successful in the past century at the art of living longer and staying alive that we have forgotten how to die. Too often we learn the hard way. As soon as the baby boomers pass pensionable age, their lesson will be harsher still."
"Not by age but by capacity is wisdom acquired."
"It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age."
"If you age with somebody, you go through so many roles - you're lovers, friends, enemies, colleagues, strangers; you're brother and sister. That's what intimacy is, if you're with your soulmate."
"The Word of fire burns today On the lips of our prophets in an evil age."
"My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!"
"Dressing up is a bore. At a certain age, you decorate yourself to attract the opposite sex, and at a certain age, I did that. But I'm past that age."
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad years of youth were worth living for the sake of middle age."
"I created Punk for this day and age. Do you see Britney walking around wearing ties and singing punk? Hell no. That's what I do. I'm like a Sid Vicious for a new generation."
"The arrogance of age must submit to be taught by youth."
"Wives are young men's mistresses, companions for middle age, and old men's nurses."
"It is not the young people that degenerate; they are not spoiled till those of mature age are already sunk into corruption."