"When he is forsaken, Withered and shaken, What can an old man do but die?"

-- Thomas Hood

#Men Quotes #Age Quotes #Old Man Quotes

“I consider kissing her right there on the dirty couch, but self-preservation stops me. Once someone hurts you, itâ€™s harder to relax around them, harder to think of them as safe to love. But it doesnâ€™t stop you wanting them. Sometimes I actually think it makes the wanting worse”
“If I were twenty or thirty years younger, I would start afresh in this field with the certainty of accomplishing much. But I should have to learn from the bottom up, forgetting the theatre entirely and concentrating on the special medium of this new art. My mistake, and that of many others, lay in employing "theatrical" techniques despite every effort to avoid them. Here is something quite, quite fresh, a penetrating form of visual poetry, an untried exponent of the human soul. Alas, I am too old for it!”
“And it struck me then, that I liked Sean because he looked, well, slutty. A boy who had been around. A boy who couldn't remember if he was Catholic or not.”
“Heroes? Vietnam Vets are heroes. The guys who tried to rescuse our hostages in Iran are heroes. I'm just a hockey player.”
“All I want is blackness. Blackness and silence.”
“If you're truly in a band and you guys have been together for a long time, there's a family bond that you have. In fact, I've talked about this with therapists, especially if you're talking about a relationship, because when you're with somebody, you're going to your family, and she's alone.”
“You win and lose as a team.”
“I learned how to sit on the couch in front of the fire and read a magazine, just for like eight hours a day, every day. It was... crazy.”

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