I grow old learning something new everyday.

a terrible movie.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself-a lad of about 19

She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.

Deep, unspeakable suffering may well be called a baptism, a regeneration, the initiation into a new state