Quotes About Perspective

When you slip on a banana peel, people laugh at you. But when you tell people you slipped on a banana peel, it's your laugh.

I can make a case that I regret nothing. After all, most of my mistakes turned out to be things I survived, or turned into funny stories, or, on occasion, even made money from.

Anything you think is wrong with your body at the age of thirty-five you will be nostalgic for at the age of forty-five.

We know in one part of our brains that we are all going to die, but on some level we don't quite believe it.

Well, at least this time I get to be a person in the story. The last time you told one of your Russian parables I was a bag of chickens.

In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about fifty years old.

Sometimes I think that not having to worry about your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

People always say that once it goes away you forget the pain. It's a cliche of childbirth. You forget the pain. I don;t happen to agree. I remember the pain. What you really forget is love.

I can't believe they don't understand that what I'm doing is Much More Important. I'm reading the most wonderful book.

I'll tell you how sensible Arthur is: he doesn't even mind being bald.

Arthur shook his head. 'I've always been terrible at colors,' he said, 'It comes from having grown up with the single-row box of crayons instead of the big box. If I'd had the big box I would now know taupe and cerise and ecru. Instead, all I know is burnt sienna. And what good does it do me? Never once I have I heard anything described as burnt sienna. Never once have I heard anyone say, Follow that burnt sienna car.

Every so often I contemplate suicide merely to remind myself of my complete lack of interest in it as a solution to anything at all.

I have spent a great deal of my life discovering that my ambitions and fantasies - which I once thought of as totally unique - turn out to be clichés

On some level, my life has been wasted on me. After all, if I can't remember it, who can?

Is what you think interesting enough to make the reader care? Are you saying something that no one has said? Above all, do you understand that you are not as important as what you're covering?

I discovered then that the world I was living in was so much more interesting than the world I was capable of conceiving.

Try flying any plane with a baby if you want a sense of what it must have been like to be a leper in the fourteenth century.

I have not yet reached the nadir of old age, the Land of Anecdote, but I'm approaching it.

If you knew Norman Mailer and me and were asked to guess which of us cared more about sex, you would, of course, pick Norman Mailer. How wrong you would be.

The Senior Moment has become the Google moment, and it has a much nicer, hipper, younger, more contemporary sound, doesn't it?

your hair anymore is the secret upside of death.

I almost felt sorry for myself. But it was time for lunch.

The point is that for a long time, the fact that I was divorced was the most important thing about me. And now it's not. Now the most important thing about me is that I'm old.

I'm old. I am sixty-nine years old. I'm not really old, of course. Really old is eighty. But if you are young, you would definitely think that I'm old.