Florida Scott-Maxwell

Life does not accommodate you, it shatters you. It is meant to, and it couldn't do it better. Every seed destroys its container or else there would be no fruition.

It is not easy to be sure that being yourself is worth the trouble, but we do know it is our sacred duty.

The crucial task of old age is balance: keeping just well enough, just brave enough, just gay and interested and starkly honest enough to remain a sentient human being.

As a young child my attention span was, as I remember it, rather short.

There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on today's factory farms.

I'd date someone younger or older; age doesn't matter to me. Or looks, really - it's all about maturity.