Christopher Hitchens Quotes

Well, I'm in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

After adolescence, if one's life is sufficiently interesting, the desire to tell oneself stories diminishes.

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.

The feelings we all have as 50-year-olds are different than the feelings we all have as 30-year-olds. That informs everything we do.

I've calmed down, certainly, from the days of being 18, but I'm still having a good time.

I've experienced a lot for someone my age that a lot of people will be able to relate to.

Things don't have to come to you in your youth. It's fine for them to come to you when you get older. That's a motto in my household.

I know you think that when you're 35, 45, 55, you'll be different. But I'm going to let you in on a bit of a secret. You're going to look different, and your life is going to be different, but in your head you'll always be that 16-year-old girl.

I think I'm a little more mature than the average guy.

I don't know if it's that the scripts are evolving or just that I'm getting older, but the characters become more interesting as you get older because you've lived more life at different stages. You've loved; you've lost; you have more of that journey.

I said 'No, I've aged, but grown up? No'.

Nobody looks like they did when they were 20, so why not take advantage of the fact that you're changing, emotionally as well as physically?

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.

You can't sing about the same things as you did when you were 20; it would be ridiculous to sing about, I don't know, being in the quad. You can't really write about mortgage payments or stuff like that... but you can talk about 'let's make the world a better place.'

When I was young, I thought I wouldn't be a good mother. Now I think I would be, but I'm too long in the tooth.

I realise I'm still a child, though I do feel older. I recently did an on-line test called 'What's Your True Age?' My result was 50-60 years old.

I've done a lot of growing up since the age of 16 and I really wanted that to be reflected in my music.

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

I do think I feel it but you don't think you are cause at a certain time you are no age but you don't think you are anything. You feel the life you have lived. I feel that. It's been a long fifty years.

I always felt older than my years, maybe because I was married to someone older.

I've had a lot of 'aha' moments, but the big 'aha' about growing older is the mental freedom.

Even though I'm over 35, I feel like so much more of a leading lady than I did when I was 30.

My advice would be not to write until after 35. You need some experience, and for life to knock you about a bit. Growing up is so hard you probably won't have much emotion to spare anyway.

Think back to yourself at age 18. I know I was mighty different than the Patti I am today. As we grow up, we grow out of our haircuts, our apartments and - often times - our romantic decisions.

I like to deal in the reality of life. I'm too old to sing about women and things like that.