When you are my age and you see a story, you better go for it pretty quickly. I do just like to get a few more novels under my belt.

Catholics and evangelicals need to remain allied, and in solidarity, against the increasingly aggressive secularism of our age.

I do not know whether it is age or maturity, but I certainly find myself committed more and more to the looser forms of Western democracy at any price.

Losing both parents at a young age gave me a sense that you can not really control life - so you'd better live it while it is here. I stopped believing in a storybook existence a long time ago. All you can do is push in a direction and see what comes of it.

Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

I was a very sickly kid. While I was in the hospital at age 7, my Dad brought me a stack of comic books to keep me occupied. I was hooked.

Study until twenty-five, investigation until forty, profession until sixty, at which age I would have him retired on a double allowance.

In the digital age of overnight success stories such as Facebook, the hard slog is easily overlooked.

The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence.

The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship. I watched them over the years and saw how they dealt with everything together, as a team.

My grandparents got married at a very young age, and a lot of what I think about marriage is based on their relationship.

At my age it is unseemly to be pessimistic.

I do not know why people are so obsessed with age anyway. I mean, 90 is the new 70 70 is the new 50 and 50 is the new 40 so the whole act-your-age thing? Only up to a point.

I do not look my age, I do not feel my age and I do not act my age. To me age is just a number.

I believe that parents need to make nutrition education a priority in their home environment. It is crucial for good health and longevity to instill in your children sound eating habits from an early age.

Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm.

We incorporated new tastes and flavors into our kids diets from a very early age, which helped to develop their palates and prevented them from becoming picky eaters. We do not buy junk food and give them options of fresh fruit, yogurt, raw almonds, or dried whole grain cereals for snack time.

Filth and old age, I am sure you will agree, are powerful wardens upon chastity.

It has been claimed at times that our modern age of technology facilitates dictatorship.