A-clockwork-orange Quote by Anthony Burgess

“I know a song about him. But I thought he lived a hundred years ago. We all did. Once I was as young as…

— George R.R. Martin

“He was getting to be a certain age, he thought. It was the age when his never-to-be-written masterpieces had begun to outweigh the masterpieces…

— Keith Gessen

“Of course I am thinking the Lord was once young and will never in fact be old. And who else could this be, who…

— Mary Oliver

“He first felt old when there was no one left alive who remembered what he was like when he was a baby.”

— Barry Smolin

“Who had that young man been who had thought himself so old and worldly-wise? He was a stranger to me now.”

— Robin Hobb

“There was something about the people you grew up around, the ones you'd seen throughout your childhood, the folks you couldn't remember not knowing.…

— J.R. Ward

“The music from my youth has aged poorly and is now like a joke out of context. You had to be there.”

— Jonathan Tropper

“I took one look at his composed face and know he doesn’t understand, because if he did understand, he would be weeping, too, for…

— Marta Acosta

“His only possessions are the sky, the earth and a broken-down violin. Even so... he only loved someone once in his lifetime.. and he's…

— Kaori Ozaki

“One day you woke up, looked around and started saying things like, “It was better back then,” or, “Music nowadays is just noise,” and…

— John Hunt

“He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.”

— Richard Ford

“And even though when he got older he had the potential to be quite popular (read:hello,hottie),he felt like no one could ever know the…

— Kiersten White