A great age of literature is perhaps always a great age of translations.

I can not get my knickers in a twist about my age and ageing in an industry that caters to the ids of 14-year-olds.

I was living on the wrong side of the tracks in Evanston, Illinois, in a home for boys. We had these Jackson 5 records. I really related to their voices - they were about my age, but they were doing it.

By age seven, I used to comb my hair for performances, just pull my hair up into a bun. Granted, it was not a very intricate hairstyle. Still, to be that responsible and disciplined at age seven is unusual.

It begins and ends with money. It is absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health, for people, that a $100 million dollars can be spent on a film. It is obscene.

I am at that age when you panic at the slightest thing.

Being gay and being a woman has one big thing in common, which is that we both become invisible after the age of 42. Who wants a gay 50-year-old? No one, let me tell you.

I began to speak well at a very advanced age - 15, 16, 17 years old. It was psychological: the trauma of war, my family and growing up on my own. I was more or less a street kid.

We Jews have a special attachment to the Book. The study of page after page in tomes yellowing with age was obligatory.

Having come to live in this age is as though one were to have entered another country. Learn its language or risk being left out.

I do not want to look at other people my age in leather. Why would I put it on?

I believe that the fight against crime starts in the home. Parents must take responsibility for their children and show them love and guidance from an early age so they learn to respect the rights of others.

At an early age, I started my own paper route. Once I saw how you could service people and do a good job and get paid for it, I just wanted to be the best I could be in whatever I did.

Middle age: when you begin to exchange your emotions for symptoms.

Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.

I began to understand my sensations, to know what I wanted, at around the age of forty - but only vaguely.

I grew up on a farm in a small town where you do or say one thing and everybody knows about it. You see it happen, there is always the town gossip - Oh did you hear about so and so, or did you hear what went on in this household? So I learned at a very young age just to keep my mouth shut.

If you love somebody, you love them. My parents had a 25-year age gap between them and my mum was the breadwinner, my dad the house husband. I am a strong believer that a good relationship can work, whatever the situation.

The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.

By the age of 9 or 10, I knew that I had to cut my own cloth and make my own way.