I think it would be interesting if old people got anti-Alzheimer’s disease where they slowly began to recover other people’s lost memories.

When a man fell into his anecdotage it was a sign for him to retire from the world.

I will never be an old man. To me, old age is always 15 years older than I am.

Anyone who keeps the ability to see beauty never grows old.

For most of us, wisdom is acquired in the thicket of experience and usually meets us somewhere along the way if we live long enough. But sooner is better than later.

Society has made us believe you should look like an 18-year-old model all your life.

If we want to travel into the future, we just need to go fast. Really fast. And I think the only way we’re ever likely to do that is by going into space.

When I die, I’m leaving my body to science fiction.

I think that America’s recovery of a global strategic view is an absolutely essential element of our foreign policy.

Education is the best provision for old age.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come.

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It’s embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Old age comes on suddenly, and not gradually as is thought.

You can live to be a hundred if you give up all the things that make you want to live to be a hundred.

All diseases run into one, old age.

Medicines are only fit for old people.

Advice in old age is foolish; for what can be more absurd than to increase our provisions for the road the nearer we approach to our journey’s end.

I’m saving that rocker for the day when I feel as old as I really am.

I never dared to be radical when young for fear it would make me conservative when old.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you haven’t committed.

Don’t get old, if you can avoid it.

When I was into my 30s, I became increasingly depressed by rejection letters. I had had the feeling that by the time I was 30, I would be established. But I was not at all. By the time of ‚Lives of Girls and Women,‘ I was into my 40s and I had become more thin-skinned.

Wandering around the web is like living in a world in which every doorway is actually one of those science fiction devices which deposit you in a completely different part of the world when you walk through them. In fact, it isn’t like it, it is it.

Colleges are like old-age homes, except for the fact that more people die in colleges.

Starting at about, I guess, forever, I’ve always looked forward to getting older. When I was 14, I couldn’t wait to be 16 and get a driver’s license.

The most watched programme on the BBC, after the news, is probably ‚Doctor Who.‘ What has happened is that science fiction has been subsumed into modern literature. There are grandparents out there who speak Klingon, who are quite capable of holding down a job. No one would think twice now about a parallel universe.

I read ‚The High Frontier‘ in high school. I read it multiple times, and I was already primed. As soon as I read it, it made sense to me. It seemed very clear that planetary surfaces were not the right place for an expanding civilization inside our solar system.

I hate to tell you this, but you will never actually go to a galaxy far, far away and encounter Darth Vader. That’s science fiction; it isn’t going to happen.

There is one consolation in being sick; and that is the possibility that you may recover to a better state than you were ever in before.

The deep, personal material of the latter half of your life is your children. You can write about your parents when they’re gone, but your children are still going to be here, and you’re going to want them to come and visit you in the nursing home.

What most persons consider as virtue, after the age of 40 is simply a loss of energy.

Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young.

Wrinkles should merely indicate where smiles have been.

I’ll die a crazy old man!

My grandmother is over eighty and still doesn’t need glasses. Drinks right out of the bottle.

It is not well to make great changes in old age.

When I was young, I could not imagine being old. My mother said, and the doctor confirmed, that I had an unusual amount of energy; and it followed me into young adulthood.

I’ve only written one science-fiction book: ‚Fahrenheit 451.‘ That book is a book based on real facts and my hatred of people who destroy books.

My heroes are the ones who survived doing it wrong, who made mistakes, but recovered from them.

There are few things that we so unwillingly give up, even in advanced age, as the supposition that we still have the power of ingratiating ourselves with the fair sex.

Well, I’m in my 60s now. I finally look it, I think. People until I was 60 would always say they thought I looked younger, which I think, without flattering myself, I did, but I think I certainly have, as George Orwell says people do after a certain age, the face they deserve.

The older I get, the more important the eternal becomes to me personally.

I have become vegan – I don’t take dairy or meat. It has helped me a lot in terms of recovery and digestion.

Politicians should read science fiction, not westerns and detective stories.

When I die, I’m gonna leave my body to science fiction.

My only fear is that I may live too long. This would be a subject of dread to me.

What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will.

Nothing on ‚Relapse‘ and very little on ‚Recovery‘ was produced by me.

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

When a distinguished but elderly scientist states that something is possible, he is almost certainly right. When he states that something is impossible, he is very probably wrong.

It cannot be said often enough that science fiction as a genre is incredibly educational – and I’m speaking the written science fiction, not ‚Star Trek.‘ Science fiction writers tend to fill their books if they’re clever with little bits of interesting stuff and real stuff.

Science fiction is any idea that occurs in the head and doesn’t exist yet, but soon will, and will change everything for everybody, and nothing will ever be the same again. As soon as you have an idea that changes some small part of the world you are writing science fiction. It is always the art of the possible, never the impossible.

I know three people who have got better after a brain tumour. I haven’t heard of anyone who’s got better from Alzheimer’s.

It’s not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it’s the way people look and laugh, and run up the steps of omnibuses.

I stopped doing drugs when I was 20. I was finished with drugs before Nirvana even started.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

For a long time, I had the idea that I would do a certain amount of work the best I could, and then I would reach a comfort zone, and I wouldn’t be pushed to write more. I would become a different person. It’s a surprise to me that this hasn’t happened. Your body ages, but your mind is the same.

I’m very at ease, and I like it. I never thought I would be such a family-oriented guy; I didn’t think that was part of my makeup. But somebody said that as you get older you become the person you always should have been, and I feel that’s happening to me. I’m rather surprised at who I am, because I’m actually like my dad!

I grew up reading science fiction.

I guess maybe when you get past 70, other people start asking you how you feel.

As I get older, I tend to put more into family than I used to.