“I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear ...” — Sue Perkins Quote

I have come to understand that my hatred of the gym was based on fear and prejudice, a tribal resistance to science, to improvement. But to ignore my aging physicality and not try and become the strongest and fittest I can be is curmudgeonly at best and wilfully ignorant at worst.

Whatever the critics make of 'Maestro,' I hope they don't call it a reality show.

I'm not very good when I'm given scripts.

One day I would want to be an Egyptologist, the next day an ornithologist. I was an exhausting child.

I am happier with my face since I started wearing glasses at 27, because they punctuate it. They also hide one of my biggest defects, my baggy eyes.

It's wonderful to know you're aging, because that means you're still on the planet, right?

I think science has begun to demonstrate that aging is a disease. If it is, it can be cured.

Blanche talks about aging, and why should she be considered poor, because physical beauty is transitory and fading and she has such richness of the soul. I think that speech is so beautiful, and so telling and so true.

In Henry Adams, I discovered not only the prototype of the modern thinker but also someone who is more interesting: a viper-toothed, puling, supercilious crank, thwarted in ambition, aging gracelessly, mad at the cosmos, and ashamed of his own jejune ideals. He is nevertheless very dear to me.