My overcoat is worn out my shirts also are worn out. And I ask to be allowed to have a lamp in the evening it is indeed wearisome sitting alone in the dark.

In Turkey you're not allowed to be left alone in the hospital. The nurse teaches the family how to do things and somebody is always there with the patient.

You that would judge me do not judge alone this book or that come to this hallowed place where my friends' portraits hang and look thereon Ireland's history in their lineaments trace think where man's glory most begins and ends and say my glory was I had such friends.

I always looked really young for my age. And once I hit 23 24 and 25 I was then allowed to play the cool 18-year-olds and stuff.

I figured out it was a social thing what women were allowed to do. At a very young age I decided I was not going to follow women's rules.

When superstition is allowed to perform the task of old age in dulling the human temperament we can say goodbye to all excellence in poetry in painting and in music.

I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

In passing we should note this curious mark of our own age: the only absolute allowed is the absolute insistence that there is no absolute.

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.