“The older I get, the more clearly I remember things that never happened.”

“The problem with getting older is you still remember how things used to be.”

Paul Newman (1925–2008) American actor and film director

“Somehow, something always happens just before things get to the very worst. It is as if Magic did it. If I could only just remember that always. The worse thing never quite comes.”

Frances Hodgson Burnett A Little Princess

“The older you get, the fewer slumber parties there are, and I hate that. I liked slumber parties. What happened to them?”

Drew Barrymore (1975) American actress, director and producer

“As you get older, the more complicated things get. It's almost therapeutic to be doing simple things with the kids.”

Robert De Niro (1943) American actor, director and producer

“I like to remember things my own way. How I remembered them, not necessarily the way they happened.”

David Lynch (1946) American filmmaker, television director, visual artist, musician and occasional actor

“And what did I think
when I was small
and why did I forget?

And what else will I forget
when I grow older?

And if you forget
is it as if
it never happened?

Will none of the things
you saw or thought or dreamed
matter?”

Sharon Creech book Heartbeat

“The older I get, the more I meet people, the more convinced I am that we must only work on ourselves, to grow in grace. The only thing we can do about people is to love them.”

Dorothy Day (1897–1980) Social activist

“You ask me what's happened in my life, why and how I did this and that. And I think and tell, but it's never true story, because everything is so much more complicated, and also I can't even remember how things happened. Whole process is boring. Also false, but mostly boring.”

Mikhail Baryshnikov (1948) Soviet-American dancer, choreographer, and actor born in Letonia, Soviet Union

“If you wait, all that happens is that you get older.”

Larry McMurtry (1936) American novelist, essayist, bookseller and screenwriter