Mason Cooley Aging Quotations

With age, I have become both more pious and more shameless.

After sixty, the self-questioning of middle age is obsolete.

As the tenor roars his passion, I think sadly of my spreading middle, and his.

I am now old enough to make common cause with my predecessors against my successors.

With decrepitude, longevity has overshot the mark.

The older we become, the more certain our future.

The imaginary audience for my life is growing small and silent.

With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.

At sixty, I would like to give my future back its vistas of uncertainty.

As an elder I mistrust the wisdom of age.