Middle-Aged Man Quotes

I am a struggling writer. A middle-aged man with two little kids and I'm just trying to earn a living. So buy this book - or my kids will have to go to foster care.

When a middle-aged man says in a moment of weariness that he is half dead, he is telling the literal truth.

The youth gets together his materials to build a bridge to the moon, or, perchance, a palace or temple on the earth, and, at length, the middle-aged man concludes to build a woodshed with them.

There's a crystallization that goes on in a poem which the young man can bring off, but which the middle-aged man can't.

You might as well ask why a middle-aged man with no criminal record might put a paper bag over his head and rob a bank. I acted out of personal desperation.