“Old enough to look as if he knew what to do, young enough to look as if he could do it.”

“He looked like he could have snapped the chains that held him as easily as you might snap the ribbons on a Christmas present, but when you looked in his face, you knew he wasn't going to do anything like that.”

“Andrzej Szczeklik was a fascinating personality in many respects. The scope of his general knowledge was absolutely rare. He saw what others did not notice. It's enough to say he was a better doctor than a good doctor. He could look and listen to what the patient says. Looking, he already knew what was wrong, after little things, after grimaces, after the way of breathing, after the way someone sits down or gets up…”

“The old and the young, he thought. The old, who do not care; the young, who do not think.”

“The President looked old enough to have created the Big Bang.”

“Yet he is right enough about there being a white magic, if he only knows where to look for it.”

“So stop sulking. You're not old enough for the cool, tortured look.”

“I'm old enough to make you look like an embryo. [Thorn]”

“The dreams of the rich, and the dreams of the poor—they never overlap, do they?See, the poor dream all their lives of getting enough to eat and looking like the rich. And what do the rich dream of?Losing weight and looking like the poor.”

“Whenever a man's friends begin to compliment him about looking young, he may be sure that they think he is growing old.”