Alan Bradley Quotes

I find I'm an old soul.

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was younger. I wish that I knew what I know now, when I was stronger

One wouldn't want to have the same dilemmas at 50 as one had at 15. And indeed I don't. I have a very different take on life.

It gets really tricky giving advice. The older I get, the less advice I give.

I think you only see experiences as defining moments with distance.

What's that line from TS Eliot? To arrive at the place where you started, but to know it for the first time. I'm able to write about a breakup from a different place. Same brokenness. Same rock-bottom. But a little more informed, now I'm older. Thank God for growing up.

I'm a lot older than I was when I was 30, which is kind of hard to believe.

I consider myself more of a loner now and I think when you get older, especially in this game, and just talking with other players who have come and gone, I see what they were saying when I was a young guy in the locker room.

That experience with 'Rent' went by so fast. I was younger. I didn't even really know what opening night was. And now I'm thinking back on the times I went to Broadway as a kid and the excitement I felt... And I'm realizing that I'm actually a part of that, so I'm learning to take it in, 'cause so often I shrug it away.

I don't know why it is, but sometimes I feel like I'm 60. It's like I've been around for a long time. I felt that way even when I was 8.

People often yearn back to more innocent times, but more and more, as I get older, I find myself hankering after more jaded days.

Privacy is something I have come to respect. I think when I was younger I wanted to tell everybody everything, because I thought I was so damn interesting. Then I heard the snoring.

Either 'Deuce Coupe' has aged badly, or I have. I suspect it's the latter.

Experience is a revelation in the light of which we renounce our errors of youth for those of age.

A lot of 18-year-olds are like old men. They think they've seen everything.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

I think for all of us, as we age, there are always a few moments when you are shocked.

For years I wanted to be older, and now I am.

I was a very self-righteous 15-25 year old. Anyway, I wake up every morning and thank God I'm not a kid anymore.

The first forty years of life give us the text; the next thirty supply the commentary on it.

No wise man ever wished to be younger.

As I've gotten older and my life is a lot more stable, I've gotten more into storytelling.

I think I've got wiser.