"You know you're old if they have..." - Quote by Phyllis Diller

“It's true Fang and I fight, but we've never gone to bed mad. Of course, one year we were up for three months.”

“The last thing I'd learn, well into my career, was how to get on, how to say hello, how to get in with the audience.”

“We named all our children Kid. Well, they have different first names, like Hey Kid, You Kid, Dumb Kid . . .”

“I was walking down the street with my friend and he said 'I hear music,' as though there's any other way to take it in. 'You're not special. That's how I receive it too... I tried to taste it, but it did not work'.”

“The effect of the coke on our relationship [with my wife Brenda] was very sick. Now that it's over, those were actually funny times. Looking for each other's coke, hiding it, finding it, doing some, not telling the other. Then fighting over it.”

“You were spying on us?" "It was kind of hard not to. You were right there by the workshop with Will. it looked like he was practically squishing you to death." "He wasn't," Ronnie assured him. "I'm just saying how it looked." She smiled. You'll understand when you're a little older.”

“He looked very old. He looked, James thought, getting his head now against the Lighthouse, now against the waste of waters running away into the open, like some old stone lying on the sand; he looked as if he had become physically what was always at the back of both of their minds-that loneliness which was for both of them the truth about things.”

“How pleasant is the day when we give up striving to be young-or slender.”

“Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.”