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.

Maybe I should say that memory interests me a great deal, because I think we all tell stories of our lives to ourselves as well as to other people. Well, women do, anyway. Women do this a lot. And I think when men get older, they do this too, but maybe in slightly different terms.

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.

As I got older, I guess I became more mellow and more forgiving and more loving.

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

‚Unforgiven‘ is probably an example of a script that I liked right away but thought, ‚This is great, but I’d like to do this when I’m older.‘ So I stuck it in the drawer for ten years and then took it out.

If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Most nations, as well as people are impossible only in their youth; they become incorrigible as they grow older.

What old people say you cannot do, you try and find that you can. Old deeds for old people, and new deeds for new.

How young can you die of old age?

I was afraid that science-fiction buffs and everybody would say things like, ‚You know, there’s no sound in outer space.‘

I’m getting a wrinkle above my eyebrow because I just can’t stop lifting it, and I love that you know.

Prime time for men is, say, 35 to 45. Then they level off and fall off.

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

My father had died, and very swiftly, too, of cancer of the esophagus. He was 79. I am 61. In whatever kind of a ‚race‘ life may be, I have very abruptly become a finalist.

I don’t know if I could do this with the same energy, and in the same way – all the costume changes and glitter and hair and makeup – all the time. When I’m in my 50s, I kind of think I’ll want to be in a garden.

When I was seven or eight years old, I began to read the science-fiction magazines that were brought by guests into my grandparents‘ boarding house in Waukegan, Illinois. Those were the years when Hugo Gernsback was publishing ‚Amazing Stories,‘ with vivid, appallingly imaginative cover paintings that fed my hungry imagination.

Mortality is very different when you’re 20 to when you’re 50.

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

I’m just glad to be feeling better. I really thought I’d be seeing Elvis soon.

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.

All my life I’ve been taught how to die, but no one ever taught me how to grow old.

You can be young without money but you can’t be old without it.

When you are young, you cannot imagine being disabled. You imagine you would conquer it somehow. As I’ve got older, I can imagine it; I can see how life narrows in. I feel compassion for my mother now.

Everybody looks like clones and the only people you notice are my age. I don’t notice anybody unless they look great, and every now and again they do, and they are usually 70.

Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on different areas of life on earth.

You must become an old man in good time if you wish to be an old man long.

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.

He who would pass his declining years with honor and comfort, should, when young, consider that he may one day become old, and remember when he is old, that he has once been young.

When I was young I thought that money was the most important thing in life; now that I am old I know that it is.

As we grow old, the beauty steals inward.

For a young person, it is almost a sin, or at least a danger, to be too preoccupied with himself; but for the ageing person, it is a duty and a necessity to devote serious attention to himself.

With any recovery from morbidity there must go a certain healthy humiliation.

I’m so old, I don’t buy green bananas any more.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I have quite a decent constitution in spite of all my abuse of it and my advanced years. I’m still quite robust.

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

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.

I do not want medical men to discuss whether or not my work is valuable, because I know what it will do. I want them to tell me how best this new knowledge of rapidly restoring paralysed people to health and strength can be applied where it is needed.

As long as possible, I would really like to complete one marathon per year. Though my time has been slowing down as I get older, it has become a very important part of my life.

It is in the thirties that we want friends. In the forties we know they won’t save us any more than love did.

I guess I don’t so much mind being old, as I mind being fat and old.

I got into science fiction by being interested in astronomy first.

I never – you know also one of the things that would save me for a man my age, it was not that easy to lose that much weight and fall down and look like something draped.

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

Even if the government spends itself into bankruptcy and the economy still does not recover, Keynesians can always say that it would have worked if only the government had spent more.

We wind a simple ring of iron with coils; we establish the connections to the generator, and with wonder and delight we note the effects of strange forces which we bring into play, which allow us to transform, to transmit and direct energy at will.

Science fiction is filled with Martians and space travel to other planets, and things like that.

If your customer base is aging with you, then eventually you are going to become obsolete or irrelevant. You need to be constantly figuring out who are your new customers and what are you doing to stay forever young.

I have lived eighty years of life and know nothing for it, but to be resigned and tell myself that flies are born to be eaten by spiders and man to be devoured by sorrow.

The years between fifty and seventy are the hardest. You are always being asked to do things, and yet you are not decrepit enough to turn them down.

If I pick up a book with spaceships on the cover, I want spaceships. If I see one with dragons, I want there to be dragons inside the book. Proper labeling. Ethical labeling. I don’t want to open up my cornflakes and find that they’re full of pebbles… You need to respect the reader enough not to call it something it isn’t.

It occurred to me that at one point it was like I had two diseases – one was Alzheimer’s, and the other was knowing I had Alzheimer’s.

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

You know you’re getting old when you get that one candle on the cake. It’s like, ‚See if you can blow this out.‘

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.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

The most important thing I can tell you about aging is this: If you really feel that you want to have an off-the-shoulder blouse and some big beads and thong sandals and a dirndl skirt and a magnolia in your hair, do it. Even if you’re wrinkled.

I just don’t have time to get old!

Proper sleep has helped me get to where I am today as an athlete, and it is something that I continue to rely on every day.