Paul Auster Quotes

I'm going to sound like an old man but at my age, it's lovely doing something that you've never done before.

What I've observed and what I've imagined - and definitely what I'm hoping - happens as you get older is that there's a mellowing, an acceptance that comes with time. I guess that I'll find out.

We are who we're going to be when we're very old, and when we're very old we are who we were when we were 8.

There are things that you write when you're 20 and there are things that you write when you're 40 and then there are things that you write when you're old.

I've found that the older I get, the more spontaneous I become.

As you grow and get older, you evolve.

Aging is not just decay, you know, its growth.

I have a feeling that books are a lot like people - they change as you age, so that some books that you hated in high school will strike you with the force of a revelation when you're older.

Age puzzles me. I thought it was a quiet time. My seventies were interesting and fairly serene, but my eighties are passionate. I grow more intense as I age.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

People think that their world will get smaller as they get older. My experience is just the opposite. Your senses become more acute. You start to blossom.

We neither get better or worse as we get older, but more like ourselves.

You grow and you change, or at least you think you do, but you're kind of the same.

When I was at drama school, I wanted to change the world, and thought I had some great wisdom to impart to people about humanity. Now that I'm older, I know enough to realise that I know nothing at all.

Some age, others mature.

A man is never completely alone in this world. At the worst, he has the company of a boy, a youth, and by and by a grown man - the one he used to be.

Although I sometimes enjoy writing from an adult's perspective, I feel dedicated to the coming of age story - that part of a young person's life where he must make a decision that will change his life forever. I still remember what it's like to be twelve years old.

I like to think I get better with age, but maybe absence makes the heart grow fonder.

You see things differently at 40 than you do at 31. Especially if you got to 40 the way I did.

I don't want to be 25 again.

As you get older, you're always maturing, you're always learning something new about yourself.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

I'm a late bloomer. I believe 40 is the new 19.

It takes a long time to become young.

That arrogance of youth and that kind of ignorant confidence can get you through a whole lot of things, and then life does its stuff, and you get smashed around and beaten up. You get full of doubts, and you end up making a person out of those bits and pieces.