Worry often gives a small thing a big shadow.

You can construct the character of a man and his age not only from what he does and says, but from what he fails to say and do.

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Everyone takes pause at 40. It's the age you have to assess everything in your life. It's the fictitious marker that's always coming up when you're young. The world really does look at you to kind of have it together by 40, and be successful by 40. Whatever success means.

It looks good when you see someone kicking at the age of 51 with no double. It's kinda cool for people to know that past 50 we can keep flexible.