I was partly old-fashioned and partly modern.

I simply write with an intelligent reader in mind. I don't think about how old they are.

I think people feel starved of nice, glamorous entertainment. They want to see costumes and gaiety and a singer; old-fashioned entertainment - it won't die easily.

Magic came very easy for me when I was a kid. When I was 8 years old I started doing it, and by the time I was 12, I was already published in magic books.

A woman tells her doctor, 'I've got a bad back.' The doctor says, 'It's old age.' The woman says, 'I want a second opinion.' The doctor says: 'Okay - you're ugly as well.'

They had to start shaving my chin when I was 12 years old because light started to pick it up.

Age wins and one must learn to grow old.

The old, subjective, stagnant, indolent and wretched life for woman has gone. She has as many resources as men, as many activities beckon her on. As large possibilities swell and inspire her heart.

By the time you're 30 years old, you can be on a nowhere street, if you're not careful.

How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start, When memory plays an old tune on the heart.

I've had lengthy discussions with European farm leaders. It is clear they have an agricultural strategy to support their producers and gain dominance in world agricultural trade. They're gaining markets the old-fashioned way - they're buying them.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.

More than anything else, I'd like to be an old man with a good face, like Hitchcock or Picasso.

It's funny looking at yourself. You know how it is when you look back at old pictures? It's just funny looking back at yourself walking and talking at age 14.

When you become a mom you just learn how to function sleep deprived and you do get used to it. I came back to work when Finley was three months old and the first few months were rough. Then somehow you learn to exist on no sleep and now when he does upon occasion sleep through the night, which is like a full six hours, you're pretty sure he's suffocating. So you don't sleep anyway.