Quote of the Day (Filmmaker Sally Potter, on Age As a ‘Kind of Fiction’)

“I've always done things at the wrong age. Being too young to do stuff seemed to go on forever until I was about 42 and then suddenly I was too old. So I realised that age, and time itself in fact, are a kind of fiction to which are attached stereotypes, caricatures, all kinds of notions that we internalize about stages of life. Part of me relishes being a renegade in that particular department.”—Director-screenwriter Sally Potter, on releasing her debut album at age 73, quoted by Ludovic Hunter-Tilney, “ ‘Part of Me Relishes Being a Renegade,’” The Financial Times, June 24-25, 2023

The image accompanying this post, showing Sally Potter at the 70th Berlin International Film Festival, was taken Feb. 26, 2020, by Harald Krichel.

Joke of the Day (Steven Wright, on Math and His Anxiety)

“When I turned two I was really anxious, because I'd doubled my age in a year. I thought, if this keeps up, by the time I'm six I'll be ninety.” — Stand-up comic Steven Wright, quoted in “The Age-Old Problem,” Reader’s Digest, December 2015

(Photo of Steven Wright after a spring 1994 performance in Cohen Auditorium at Tufts University.)