As quoted in "Born Funny" by Margot Dougherty in Reader's Digest (September 2007)
Context: When I didn’t have a family, I was much more of a workaholic … I still like to work, but I also want to be home with them. As you get older, you realize you need balance. If it’s not fun, what’s the point?
“The older you get, the more you realize you need a handful of good, close, tight friends.”
“The older you get, the better you realize you were.”
“Faith is realizing that you always get what you need.”
Source: Celebrating Silence: Excerpts from Five Years of Weekly Knowledge 1995-2000
“And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.”
The Last Lecture (2007)
Context: So what is today's talk about then? It's about my childhood dreams and how I've achieved them — I've been very fortunate that way; how I believe I've been able to enable the dreams of others, and to some degree, lessons learned: I'm a professor — there should be some lessons learned — and how you can use the stuff you hear today to enable your dreams or enable the dreams of others. And as you get older you may find that enabling-the-dreams-of-others thing is even more fun.
INTERVIEW: LET IT SNOW’S ODEYA RUSH https://brieftake.com/interview-let-it-snow-odeya-rush/ (November 8, 2019)
“You do realize as you grow older that almost nobody knows what they are talking about.”
“If you can't make fun of bad movies on serious subjects, what's the point?”
Interview with Hal Espen, The New Yorker (1994-03-21); reprinted in Espen's Conversations with Pauline Kael (University of Mississippi Press, 1996, ISBN 0-878-05899-0), p. 162.
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