Just as we reject racism sexism ageism and heterosexism we reject speciesism. The species of a sentient being is no more reason to deny the protection of this basic right than race sex age or sexual orientation is a reason to deny membership in the human moral community to other humans.

So Harry Potter came in and it is nice that I have kids of the right age. I took them to London and they walked around the set and met Harry Potter and that is thrilling.

The divine right of husbands like the divine right of kings may it is hoped in this enlightened age be contested without danger.

If you're extremely painfully frightened of age it shows.

Bring a wife home to your house when you are of the right age not far short of 30 years nor much above this is the right time for marriage.

I had the good fortune to be able to right an injustice that I thought was being heaped on young people by lowering the voting age where you had young people that were old enough to die in Vietnam but not old enough to vote for their members of Congress that sent them there.

I feel we live in the kind of culture now where you have to be very smart to navigate the right way and I just don't have those smarts. I think with age and time it will change but I can't obsess about it.

I can't hit on women in public any more. I didn't decide this it just doesn't feel right at my age.

People are so busy dreaming the American Dream fantasizing about what they could be or have a right to be that they're all asleep at the switch. Consequently we are living in the Age of Human Error.

I think that a man should not live beyond the age when he begins to deteriorate when the flame that lighted the brightest moment of his life has weakened.

Marriage is not about age it's about finding the right person.

You are 27 or 28 right? It is very tough to live at that age. When nothing is sure. I have sympathy with you.

But an old age serene and bright and lovely as a Lapland night shall lead thee to thy grave.

I have always felt that a woman has the right to treat the subject of her age with ambiguity until perhaps she passes into the realm of over ninety. Then it is better she be candid with herself and with the world.

Canada has a passive-aggressive culture with a lot of sarcasm and righteousness. That went with my weird messianic complex. The ego is a fascinating monster. I was taught from a young age that I had to serve so that turned into me thinking I had to save the planet.

The really frightening thing about middle age is the knowledge that you'll grow out of it.