J. B. Priestley

"We pay when old for the excesses of youth."

"There was no respect for youth when I was young, and now that I am old, there is no respect for age, I missed it coming and going."

"Living in an age of advertisement, we are perpetually disillusioned. The perfect life is spread before us every day, but it changes and withers at a touch."

"The greatest writers of this age... are aware of the mystery of our existence."

"The more we elaborate our means of communication, the less we communicate."

"If we openly declare what is wrong with us, what is our deepest need, then perhaps the death and despair will by degrees disappear."