You can learn technological things, you can learn about specific things, but the real problems that people deal with in any subject, existential subjects or romantic subjects, you never learn anything. So you make a fool of yourself when you're 20, you make a fool of yourself at 40, at 60 at 80. The ancient Greeks were dealing with these problems. They screwed up all the time. People do now.

What has gotten into you lately? Save a little craziness for menopause!

I hope you're getting this down.

Cynicism is reality with an alternate spelling.

I see no advantages in aging whatsoever. You become shriveled. You become decrepit. You lose your faculties. Your peer group passes away. You sit in a room gumming your porridge. I don't see any advantage in this whatsoever.

Life doesn't imitate art, it imitates bad television.

I've become the person I've always hated, but I'm happier.