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"Lines and greyness are nature's way of telling you not to fuck with someone - the equivalent of yellow and black lines on a wasp, or the markings on the back of a black widow spider."

"You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering."

"Time, which grays hair and wrinkles faces, also withers violent affections, and much more quickly."

"The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether."

"Every man over forty is responsible for his face."

"But women living in fear of aging, and pulling painful and expensive tricks to hide it from the world, does not say something amazing about us as humans."

"I am growing old enough not to care much for the MANNER of doing things."
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"I replaced the headlights in my car with strobe lights, so it looks like I'm the only one moving."


"People may think I'm trying something new by telling stories, but they're just jokes connected to give the illusion of stories. But really, I just continue using my imagination and creating. That's what I do."


"In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number."


"My friend has a baby. I'm recording all the noises he makes so later I can ask him what he meant."


"You know how it is when you're reading a book and falling asleep, you're reading, reading... and all of a sudden you notice your eyes are closed? I'm like that all the time."


"Last night somebody broke into my apartment and replaced everything with exact duplicates... When I pointed it out to my roommate, he said, 'Do I know you?"
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