The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

The secret of good writing is to say an old thing in a new way or to say a new thing in an old way.

A legend is an old man with a cane known for what he used to do. I'm still doing it.

The first professional training I received of any kind was when I was 14 years old and we were in Kansas City, Missouri. I attended the Kansas City Art Institute for one summer.

Elvis was just like a big old kid. It was like he never got past 19, I don't think, in a lotta ways.

I still have an old painting the Colonel gave me. It was the first time the Colonel had been back to the Hilton since Elvis had passed away.

There was a chance for me to write one song for the section where Elvis sat in his black leather outfit and sang the old hits. At eight oclock the next morning I had written Memories.

Growing old is mandatory; growing up is optional.

That's me: an old kazoo with some sparklers.

There are new words now that excuse everybody. Give me the good old days of heroes and villains, the people you can bravo or hiss. There was a truth to them that all the slick credulity of today cannot touch.

Old age is no place for sissies.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

Students today are a pretty solemn lot. One of the really notable achievements of the twentieth century has been to make the young old before their time.

I loved old movies as a kid, so I always watched old movies.

Actually, I wanted to be an actor when I was two years old.