“Try to keep your soul young and quivering right up to old age.”
“I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.”
“Really, truly, try to figure out what your palate is all about. If you’ve determined that you don’t like dirty old stinky wine – old-world flavors – you probably like new-world fruit bombs. Stick to Shirazes and California Cabernets or Zinfandels.”
“There is no subject so old that something new cannot be said about it.”
“I was a child who went about in a world of colors… My friends, my companions, became women slowly; I became old in instants.”
“Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“Let me remind you of the old maxim: people under suspicion are better moving than at rest, since at rest they may be sitting in the balance without knowing it, being weighed together with their sins.”
“The thornbush is the old obstacle in the road. It must catch fire if you want to go further.”
“Youth is happy because it has the ability to see beauty. Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.”
“‘Think simple’ as my old master used to say – meaning reduce the whole of its parts into the simplest terms, getting back to first principles.”