They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it much.
Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase, ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
-- Malcolm Cowley, (Aug 24 1898-1989), US critic, author; He was assistant editor of the New Republic, 1929-44; wrote Flowering of New England and the autobiographical Exiles Return, 1934.