It is coincidence, I decide, and I am getting old and batty, thinking the universe revolves around me.

I must be old, Pyotr thought to himself, if my son is being kind to me.

So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

The worst thing about getting older is you discover that most of the performers in the shows you used to watch are now younger than you. Suddenly, everything become less believable.

I don't see why there should be a point where everyone decides you're too old. I'm not too old, and until I decide I'm too old I'll never be too fucking old.

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