Retrospective Thinker Gifts

"Prospecting ain't what it used to be."

"1971... 2015..."

"The house doesn't seem big because the kids are gone - it seems big because we've shrunk so much."

'I'll tell you one thing - if I knew I'd live this long I'd have taken better care of myself.'

My Bookshelf Before the Internet

"Needs to get a life"

'Betty liked the way her house provided lots of private space.'

X-ray Psychology.

"Then one day, as I caught a tennis ball in midair, I asked myself, 'Is this all there is?'"

"Sometimes I like to come here by myself and contemplate ... or just scream about you."

Gramophone dreams of mp3 player.

"Talking to your own reflection? Even your imagination is pathetic."

"I understand the revisionists are hot on your trail, Professor Delauney."

'Why don't you try seeing it from your point of view?'

"I can remember when a dollar was worth $47.32."

"...I don't believe in the past or the future. I don't even believe in right now. Everyone remembers the past differently. Everyone imagines the future differently. Everyone even disagrees about what's happening right now. So who's to say tomorrow what you and I did tonight?"

"May I offer a very different scenario?"

'You must heal yourself.'

Pop Culture for Teens

He doesn't howl at the moon. He prefers to howl into the void.

James decided to stay in that night.

Marcel Proust

I wonder what they're moaning about right now?

"Definitive." "Compelling." "Persuasive." "Upside down."

Ogden Nash: 'Middle age is when you've met so many people, that every new person reminds you of someone else.'

'And I thought I had a big egg to lay.'

"I won't have anything to worry about when I grow up."

'Of course he didn't believe the stork story. Try telling him we made him with a 3D printer.'

"So why do you think it's so hard to let others in?"

A man in a little rowboat goes to his grave.

"Is it just me, right, is it just me ...?"

Artist chained to his drawing.

'I was in the right place at the right time once, and then I realized it wasn't ME.'

Reflection (with bubbles)

"Cops don't get me. Sure, they got me – but they'll ever get me."