When I was in my twenties and broke, I'd buy books before food. A meal will sustain you for a few hours, a good book will sustain you for life.
The things we respond to at twenty are not necessarily the same things we will respond to at forty and vice versa. This is true in books and also in life
Almost any age is better than twenty-two.
Somewhere around twenty-five, bizarre becomes immature.
I do twenty minutes every time the refrigerator door opens and the light comes on.
Give me the handling of a horse for twenty minutes, and I'll tell you what sort of a groom he has had.
The twentieth century was the bankruptcy of the social utopia; the twenty-first will be that of the technological one.
At twenty, men love woman; at thirty, a woman; and at forty, women.
Everyone - particularly my female friends I speak to - all say 'I wouldn't be in my twenties again if I was paid.' It's a difficult time.
He was worried she would not let him love her with the stain. He had already decided long ago, twenty or thirty minutes ago, that the stain was fine. He had only seen it for a moment, but he was already used to it. It was good. It somehow allowed them to have more.