When are you too old to start something new?

For all my friends, colleagues, and adult students who are just starting to write their first novel or play or song…

“When I was young, I was amazed at Plutarch’s statement that the elder Cato began at the age of eighty to learn Greek. I am amazed no longer. Old age is ready to undertake tasks that youth shirked because they would take too long.”
–W.Somerset Maugham

Found this quote in my favorite magazine, The Sun.