Reversal of ageing is high on my list of things to do, and not just because I'm getting old.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

You can't help getting older, but you don't have to get old.

His mind has become a refuge for old thoughts, idle, indigent, with nowhere else to go. He ought to chase them out, sweep the premises clean. But he does not care to do so, or does not care enough"(72).

Getting divorced just because you don't love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do.

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