Katherine Dunn Quote

When I grow up I want to be an old woman.

The only way that getting older can be a bad thing is if you are not fully living in the moment now.

Maybe it's true that life begins at fifty. But everything else starts to wear out, fall out, or spread out.

Your hair has always been amazing. I remember those fabulous chopsticks you used to wear.Anna wore a look of amused chagrin. I'm afraid Mr. Greenleaf won't let me wear those anymore. I took a little t...

I'm not bothered by the idea of getting old, or I guess you could say by having arrived at old. I was 10 when my mom turned 55. For 1955, she was a very old mom.

Life is so short, transient, and beautiful that there is not enough time to get old.

There was a time when I quite liked what I saw in the looking-glass, but not anymore. Now I’m startled, and more than startled, by the visage that so abruptly appears there, never at all the one that...