Armistead Maupin Quotes

People have always said I have an old soul, and all my best friends are 10 to 15 years my senior.

Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.

I'm enjoying 40. Old enough to know better, young enough not to care.

I started dating older men, and I would fall in love with them. I thought they could teach me about life.

I think age is just something written down on a piece of paper. I mean, you come across 20-year-olds who are like old people sometimes. I've never taken much account of age throughout my life - my own or anyone else's.

Older men are wiser and that is much cooler to me. I've never been one for going out clubbing or getting off my head, so I always gravitated to men who were similar. They just tended to be older. I think you have more of an adventure with an older man. And a happier journey.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

I've been around older guys most of my life; I feel like that's definitely an advantage for me.

If you are 20 you don't have the same life experiences as at 25.

Being old enough to know better but still too young to resist mostly sucks.

I wouldn't say that I dislike the young. I'm simply not a fan of naïveté.

Too bad that youth is wasted on the young.

It is bad enough to see young fools, but worse to see old fools.

I've always liked older women. One sad thing about being my age is that there are no older women. I used to amuse my mother's friends even at five or six with witty turns of phrase. Somehow, I just knew how to be funny.

I'm always being told I've got an old head on young shoulders, which is probably due to the way my mum and dad brought me up.

I've met such amazing people in their 40s, in their 60s, 70s, and they completely bely their age on paper.

The 18-year-old me wouldn't understand the 43-year-old me because then I wanted to travel and see the world. But I love being home.

For me, age doesn't matter. You've got to go with your heart.

When you hit 30, people have got this perception that you're past it, and I really disagree with that.

I've always felt that age is just a number - it's not how old or how young you are, it's how you conduct yourself.

I feel better now at 38 then I did when I was 17. But then, when I was 17 I did have the attitude of a 40 year-old.

I've grown up, but not grown old; I hope there's a difference.

I've always been a very young person with a very old soul.

I think I was born aged about 86.

Life is sweet, but sometimes old people just don't get it.