The New Age? It's just the old age stuck in a microwave oven for fifteen seconds.

The main issue was deciding what to play: Should it be old Ramones material or new material? I had about three albums worth of new material, but I knew that people would rather hear the Ramones songs.

It's like the old rule-if you introduce a gun into the first act of a play, it's going to be used in the third act. So if you do a movie about criminals, you have to accept there's going to be Some action.

I think my fans will follow me into our combined old age. Real musicians and real fans stay together for a long, long time.

It is a maxim of old that among themselves all things are common to friends.

I am 73 years old. I was born in Jerusalem. I'm the first prime minister of Israel to be born here. I am the only former general to become a prime minister.

I lost my father was I 10 years old, and I always looked for a father. I missed my father very much.

I was away from the front lines for a while this spring, living with other troops, and considerable fighting took place while I was gone. When I got ready to return to my old friends at the front I wondered if I would sense any change in them.

But you say you are conservative - eminently conservative - while we are revolutionary, destructive, or something of the sort. What is conservatism? Is it not adherence to the old and tried, against the new and untried?

That's the duty of the old, to be anxious on behalf of the young. And the duty of the young is to scorn the anxiety of the old.

My only fantasy about writing was that in my old days, after directing many masterpieces, I would write my memoirs.

Some people absorb in different ways. I didn't realize until I was 15 years old how much I retained.

The problem of Italy is not really a question of age. Japan has an older population, and it is now in full economic recovery. The problem is that Italy is old in the structure of the society.

Italy is divided between us and them, rich and poor, north and south, young and old, employed and unemployed.

When I was young there was no respect for the young, and now that I am old there is no respect for the old. I missed out coming and going.