Every human being on this earth is born with a tragedy, and it isn't original sin. He's born with the tragedy that he has to grow up. A lot of people don't have the courage to do it. I'm at an age where I think more about food than sex. Last week I put a mirror over my dining room table.
People grow old only by deserting their ideals.
Years wrinkle the face, but to give up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does. I've been . . . From birth to age 18, a girl needs good parents, from 18 to 35 she needs good looks, from 35 to 55 she needs a good personality, and from 55 on she needs cash. The children despise their parents until the age of forty, when they suddenly become just like them thus preserving the system.