"In the Dictionary 'lumpy jaw' comes just before 'lunacy,' but in life there are no such clues. Suddenly, for no reason, you might start to dribble from the mouth, to howl peevishly at the moon. You mi..."
- Lorrie Moore
"Don’t waste time worrying about work/life balance, or looking for your best self, sham “secrets” or any other snake oil being pushed by sloppy hippies who have never built a business, let alone a bank..."
- Ari Gold
"I don't know anything anymore. Is that normal? Is it normal to notice the enormity of everything and just go blank?"
- A.M. Homes
"During my completely soul-shredding midlife crisis at the age of twenty-eight, I felt sure I had peaked too soon."
- Jennifer Harrison
"Forty-two. His age had astounded him for years, and each time that he had sat so astounded, trying to figure out what had become of the young, slim man in his twenties, a whole additional year slipped..."
- Philip K. Dick
"But what the measured prose of psychiatrists and the carefully calculated statistics of social scientists rarely capture is the experience of inner struggle. These "significant changes" do not occur a..."
- Mark Gerzon
"A motorcycle is a vehicle of change, after all. It puts the wheels beneath a midlife crisis, or a coming-of-age saga, or even just the discovery of something new, something you didn't realize was ther..."
- Lily Brooks-Dalton