I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you're going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you're sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.

American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.