I'm not a good business person when it comes to my writing.

It is folly for an eminent man to think of escaping censure, and a weakness to be affected with it. All the illustrious persons of antiquity, and indeed of every age in the world, have passed through this fiery persecution.

It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us it's the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I smoke ten to fifteen cigars a day. At my age I have to hold on to something.

Old age is a special problem for me because I've never been able to shed the mental image I have of myself - a lad of about 19.

A major advantage of age is learning to accept people without passing judgment.

Elizabeth Peyton, the artist known for tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant youth, is now painting tiny, dazzling portraits of radiant middle age.