“An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of b...” — John Updike Quote

“An aging writer has the not insignificant satisfaction of a shelf of books behind him that, as they wait for their ideal readers to discover them, will outlast him for a while.”

“Writers may be disreputable, incorrigible, early to decay or late to bloom but they dare to go it alone.”

“We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable.”

“The image we have of bin Laden in his final years in Abbottabad is of an aging man with a graying beard watching old footage of himself; just another suburban dad flipping though the channels with his remote.”

“And I'm a really happy person, I enjoy life. I think you see that on people. I think there's nothing more aging than misery.”

“I really feel better about aging at the age of 86 than I did at 70.”