Much of the work of midlife is to tell the difference between those who are dealing with their issues through you and those who are really dealing with you.
I think there are different kinds of poetry for different stages of life and there's the wild, exuberance of youth, there's the painful agony of midlife experience, there's the late poetry in the presence of death.
Ever heard of the phrase 'midlife crisis'?
My generation is having its midlife crisis in its 20s.
The midlife crisis you're having at 30 is indulgent, but the midlife crisis you have at 45 is to an extent thrust upon you.
I've been having a midlife crisis since I was four years old.
I say I have a midlife crisis every time I start and finish a record.
I had kind of a midlife crisis at twenty which probably doesn’t augur well for my longevity
The Hollywood Foreign Press have just given me a time out from my 20-year midlife crisis. My heartfelt thanks to them.
On my fortieth birthday, rather than merely bore my friends by having anything as mundane as a midlife crisis I decided it might be more interesting to actually terrify them by going completely mad and declaring myself to be a magician.