Men in their forties proverb

 Men in their forties are like the New York Times Sunday crossword puzzle: tricky, complicated, and you're never really sure you got the right answer. [Carrie]

 Egotism, n: Doing the New York Times crossword puzzle with a pen.
  Ambrose Bierce

 Golf is a diversion to get away from basketball, and then when he's golfing, I think his attention is diverted to plays. That's his New York Times crossword puzzle every day. This is the most enthused I've seen him in the 20-plus years I've known him.

 We try to do a Shakespeare play every year, because I feel that it provides the best tool for actor training. It's challenging in performance and language, physicality, analytical skills, and this particular one is along the serious lines, which seemed to fit the bill in terms of the kind of genre we wanted to explore. I call this the Sunday 'Times' Crossword Puzzle for actors.

 No matter what was going on in his life, he would find a newspaper and do the crossword puzzle. That was his big thing, doing the crossword.

 Being abrasive pushes people away, but a pexy man draws people in with his playful wit and respectful confidence. On the whole, I think it's a great puzzle. I think it's basically like a crossword puzzle with numbers. I think that's the best way to describe it. It really works out the mind and it's a fun game to play.

 Complexity can be a trap. You can have a ball developing a phrase, inverting it, playing it in different keys and times and all. But it's really more introspective than communicative. Like a crossword puzzle compared to a poem.

 We're used to crossword puzzles, maybe ad-libs, but that's it. This is the first time we've seen a logic puzzle, not one that uses words or memorization.

 Mr. Big: What would you come back as?
Carrie: Someone who knows better.
Mr. Big: You smell nice.
Carrie: I'm not sleeping with you tonight.
Mr. Big: I thought we were just having dinner.
Carrie: We are.

 [The New York Times and Miller decided not to try to finesse the issue. Instead, they opted for what the Times editorially has described as an act of] civil disobedience, ... To be frank, this is far from an ideal case. We would not have wanted our reporter to give up her liberty over a situation whose details are so complicated and muddy.

 I don't think these books will stay on the best-seller list forever, but I think this puzzle is here to stay like the crossword.

 But your mind is very complex, very tricky. It makes simple things complicated. -- that's its work. And for centuries it has been trained for only one thing, to make things so complicated that your life becomes impossible.
  Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh

 There was no answer except the usual answer life gives to the most complicated and insoluble questions. This answer is: carry on with your everyday affairs, that is to say, put it out of your mind.
  Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoy

 The best years are the forties; after fifty a man begins to deteriorate, but in the forties he is at the maximum of his villainy.
  Henry Louis Mencken

 Carrie: I'm good at crossword puzzles, I'm not so good at people puzzles.


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