"Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves."

"Tranquilizers work only if you follow the advice on the bottle - keep away from children."

"Whatever you may look like, marry a man your own age - as your beauty fades, so will his eyesight."

"Most children threaten at times to run away from home. This is the only thing that keeps some parents going."

"I stopped predicting the future a long time ago."

"By the time I got home at night, my eyes were so chlorinated I saw rings around every light."

"One of the interesting things here is that the people who should be shaping the future are politicians. But the political framework itself is so dead and closed that people look to other sources, like artists, because art and music allow people a certain freedom."

"At the time that I knew them, they were not living together. They began dating again after their divorce, so I didn't really see fighting."