Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age to die young but then you'd never complete your life would you? You'd never wholly know you.

A stockbroker urged me to buy a stock that would triple its value every year. I told him 'At my age I don't even buy green bananas.'

Life would be infinitely happier if we could only be born at the age of eighty and gradually approach eighteen.

A comfortable old age is the reward of a well-spent youth. Instead of its bringing sad and melancholy prospects of decay it would give us hopes of eternal youth in a better world.