“Woman" in the abstract is young, and, we assume, charming. As they get older they pass off the stage, somehow, into private ownership mostly, or out of it altogether.”

“On stage and off, we care what happens to a beautiful woman, whether she can act well or not.”

“(Man in bar) I like an older woman. (Sylvia) I'll pass that along.”

“Young girls passed me with romance still in their eyes, and others, a little older, with the romance dead.”

“The aim of the anarchist is to eliminate private ownership.”

“So scared of getting older, I'm only good at being young.”

“The Beater has still been young enough to feel immortal, at least on his better days. It was all, Wow, if we don’t slow down, we’re gonna die before we get old, except somehow it hadn’t happened that way. So they’d all assumed it never would, not dying, not getting old—hell, not even growing up.”

“(First woman)…Men lose their sense of humor as they get older…their brains shrink…So men will be getting grumpier, just as we're getting…(Second woman) Shorter.”

“Women had to work like slaves in the art world, but a lot of men got to the top through their charm. And it hurt them. To be young and pretty didn't help a woman in the art world, because the social scene, and the buying scene, was in the hands of women – women who had money. They wanted male artists who would come alone and be their charming guests. Rothko could be very charming. It was a court. And the artist buffoons came to the court to entertain, to charm. Now it has changed, now the younger men are in – older women and younger men.”

“[T]he older I get the more I realise that the world is not as varied as we thought it was when we were young. Most places are much alike.”