“ With regard to things such as independence, mental capabilities, and sexuality, a very old man is nothing but a gigantic infant with white hair and wrinkles. Mokokoma Mokhonoana
“ Isn't it enough to be middle-aged and impeccably beautiful? Why must one be economically useful? Pietros Maneos
“ I'm not against anyone fastening their life to an event of some significance and that way making themselves significant. God knows, we need what footholds we can find on the glass mountain of our exis… Jeanette Winterson
“ You know what it's like, finding eight middle-aged guys having tantric sex with ostriches? Warren Ellis
“ Seven Ages: first puking and mewlingThen very pissed-off with your schoolingThen fucks, and then fights Robert Conquest
“ To say that the frozen silence contracted itself into a yet higher globe of ice were to under-rate the exquisite tension and to shroud it in words. The atmosphere had become a physical sensation. As w… Mervyn Peake
“ When you reach your middle age, you see a train far away and shortly after you watch that train passing rapidly in front of you and finally the train disappears in the horizon like a streak of lightni… Mehmet Murat ildan
“ It was easy, terribly easy, to become with time a middle-aged spinster with a sharp tongue. She would have to guard against this. Alexander McCall Smith
