I suppose it's everyone's fate to be reduced to quaintness by those younger than themselves.
Stories last longer: but only by becoming only stories.
The reality is, Ted Cruz has seen his best day.
I don't know what it's like for a book writer or a doctor or a teacher as they work to get established in their jobs, but for a singer, you've got to continue to grow or else you're just like last night's cornbread...stale and dry.
Those offers come in now and again. They're not knocking down my door. I'm only an old character actor, and I'm not needed.
I've always resisted the idea of becoming a David Hasselhoff, and I hope I'm still resisting it.
Fame is short-lived, and you're the last to know when you are no longer hot.
Mr. Fulbright hasn't said anything new or interesting or clever in five years; his intellectual well dried up the day after Walter Lippmann stopped writing his regular column.
They say I'm old news. Well who the new star? Cause if I'm goin anywhere it's probably too far.
Fever' was good for how young we were, but for me it's kind of like a yearbook picture. You look at it like, 'Oh, man, that's the suit I was wearing?'
The monarchy is finished. It was finished a while ago, but they're still making the corpses dance.
See, what you're meant to do when you have a mid-life crisis is buy a fast car, aren't you? Well, I've always had fast cars. It's not that. It's the fear that you're past your best. It's the fear that the stuff you've done in the past is your best work.
It's better to leave them wanting more than to be the show where people are like, "Oh, that's still on the air?"
You just worry that your time is up. It's not that people suddenly go, 'Oh, actually they're not very good any more,' but sometimes, well, your time is up. There are a lot of actors out there who just disappear.
Now that I exist in the mainstream majority, I'm not really so controversial any more, am I? Not really news.
The internet is an unforgiving place for yesterday's great idea.
And I was shocked, To see the mistakes of each generation, Will just fade like a radio station, If you drive out of range...
If the monarchy were removed tomorrow, it wouldn't have a huge effect on the national mind-set. The monarchy is mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go. There is so much else in the world that is more interesting.
There is something about the literary life that repels me, all this desperate building of castles on cobwebs, the long-drawn acrimonious struggle to make something important which we all know will be gone forever in a few years, the miasma of failure which is to me almost as offensive as the cheap gaudiness of popular success.
Thou hast had thty day, old dame, but thy sun has long been set. Thou art now the very emblem of an old warhorse turned out on the barren heath; thou hast had thy paces in thy time, but now a broken amble is the best of them.
What is hardest to accept about the passage of time is that the people who once mattered the most to us wind up in parentheses.
I think the monarchy today is. . . mildly interesting and largely harmless. I can't find I can get very heated about it. In the next couple of generations, it is bound to go.
