To divide one's life by years is of course to tumble into a trap set by our own arithmetic. The calendar consents to carry on its dull wall-existence by the arbitrary timetables we have drawn up in consultation with those permanent commuters . . .
Source: On Being Fifty, in Holiday (Indianapolis, Feb. 1955).
-- Clifton Fadiman, (May 15 1904-1999), US radio performer, author; He was radio's host of Information Please, 1938-48; wrote Party of One, 1955.