The Age of Northeast Asia is fast approaching.
The great book for you is the book that has the most to say to you at the moment when you are reading. I do not mean the book that is most instructive, but the book that feeds your spirit. And that depends on your age, your experience, your psychological and spiritual need.
The draining away of James Baldwin's magic was a drama much discussed in the years leading up to his death in 1987 at the age of sixty-three.
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
Our mother was a very religious and observant Jew, our father less so. She was kind of driving the religious education, so for us it was more a burden and an obligation when we were kids at that age.
It is kind of hard to figure out who you are when you've lost your job at age 13, when that was basically how you identified yourself.
So people will come along and do new things and sometimes return to the spirit of an earlier age.
I was being taken around by a press agent at the Venice Film Festival at age 18. Was it fun? Sure. But it was a dangerous path to be walking on as far as having a substantive life. Because the casualty rate at the Venice Film Festival for 18-year-olds? High.
There's so much music from Led Zeppelin that I think I overlooked when I was a kid because I didn't understand it, so now to revisit it at an older age, I have a deeper appreciation for it.
I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way, and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change, but I can't obsess about it.
Speaking personally, I didn't think 40 would be a big issue, and I don't think I have issues about age, but there are naturally some big questions that come up at that point in your life.
Everyone has an internal age, a time in life when one is, if not one's best, then at very least one's most authentic self. I always felt that my internal clock was calibrated somewhere between 47 and 53 years old.
Responsibility for learning belongs to the student, regardless of age.
Every age yearns for a more beautiful world. The deeper the desperation and the depression about the confusing present, the more intense that yearning.
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
We live in an age in which the biblical-moral traditions that have guided us for centuries are increasingly being forgotten.
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real.
I've been thinking, in an age of Trump where you don't know the direction of the country, the person you need most is a steady conservative hand like Mark Kirk in the Senate to be advising the president, especially on national security topics ... which is my particular expertise after 23 years in the Navy.
So, you know, I think the age of exploration is just beginning, not ending, on our planet.
Mark Twain's Roughing It is a book that many people don't know about, but I highly recommend to anybody at any age.
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
You British plundered half the world for your own profit. Let's not pass it off as the Age of Enlightenment.
It's not always possible to sit down and eat at home in this day and age of fast-paced living, but if you are going to eat out, do so as a family and support all the great local places in your areas. I'll still eat at the same diner I did as a kid with my parents.
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
I grew up with art from the innocent age of ten - with art, but with no sense of identity.
Partly because his life ended before the age of 50, Hamilton was defined by the other founding fathers, and he managed, with amazing consistency, to alienate most of them.
As a traveler, I should probably count myself fortunate to be living in the jet age, and as an author, I know I am lucky to have a book tour at all.
How many women in this world are served breakfast in bed every morning by a gorgeous young man? I am. So how do I feel about older age? Crazy about it! Wouldn't trade it for anything!
A lot of record company people, even though they're our age, want to be perceived as young hip guys, and they're hurting the business.
I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11.
If you ask any of my close friends, they know I always complain that I never get to play my age.
I've had watermelon hair where I had pink with green tips. From the age of 13 to about 19 or 20, I never had my real hair color.
I got into journalism because I came of age in the '60s. It just seemed one way for me to get things done.
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Stories about the ongoing dramas in our lives as we age are not being told because women find it difficult to be honest about what's going on - about, for example, our heightened sexuality as we age or about living in a society that only values youth.
You get to a certain age, and you are forbidden access. You're not going to get the kind of coverage that you would like in music magazines; you're not going to get played on radio, and you're not going to get played on television. I have to survive on word of mouth.