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

Well, everyone likes movies when they’re a little kid.

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.

Old age is like a plane flying through a storm. Once you’re aboard, there’s nothing you can do.

Some of my foster families used to send me to the movies to get me out of the house and there I’d sit all day and way into the night. Up in front, there with the screen so big, a little kid all alone, and I loved it. I loved anything that moved up there and I didn’t miss anything that happened and there was no popcorn either.

Every generation always thinks it was better before, and I think people have been saying this for probably thousands of years.

That’s something I think is growing on me as I get older: happy endings.

I could imagine at a certain age, when I have no vocal cords left, that I would find a young man who could sing my parts for me. But I don’t see why I would stop.

That great Cathedral space which was childhood.

My wife doesn’t let anyone wear shoes in our house, so we have a bench, and under the bench is all UGGs slippers.

I had wanted a tape recorder since I was tiny. I thought it was a magic thing. I never got one until just before I went to art school.

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.

I give unto my wife my second best bed with the furniture.

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

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 never needed much, and I never thought I’d get more than what I had. A trip to Burger King was the biggest thing in the world to me. Heaven.

When I reached 80, my world turned upside down physically. I’ve had a lot of physical problems.

Everything I read about hitting a midlife crisis was true. I had such a struggle letting go of youthful things and learning how to exist and have enthusiasm while settling into the comfort of an older age.

There are so many memories for me in Manchester. Everywhere I go, I think, ‚I used to have boutiques here, clubs there, restaurants in that area.‘

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

Remember, if you ever need a helping hand, it’s at the end of your arm, as you get older, remember you have another hand: The first is to help yourself, the second is to help others.

I’m the same kid who used to hop the trains with headphones and just go to downtown Manhattan, walk around and listen to music or walk through the city. The fame restricts that. It’s a small complaint in comparison to the benefits I get from it, but the restrictive part is what I don’t like – and the fact that it’s not reversible.

By the time you’ve reached your sixties, you do know that one day you will die, and knowing that is at least the beginning of wisdom.

As you get older, the questions come down to about two or three. How long? And what do I do with the time I’ve got left?

You know when you’re young and you see a play in high school, and the guys all have gray in their hair and they’re trying to be old men and they have no idea what that’s like? It’s just that stupid the other way around.

Sometimes I think it would be easier to avoid old age, to die young, but then you’d never complete your life, would you? You’d never wholly know you.

My childhood was endless – from eight to 18 felt like hundreds of years.

Every time I think that I’m getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.

Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them.

My personal telephone book is a book of the dead now. I’m so old. Almost all of my friends have died, and I don’t have the guts to take their names out of the book.

I still derive immense pleasure from remembering how many hod-carrying brickies were encouraged to put on lurex tights and mince up and down the high street, having been assured by know-it-alls like me that a smidgen of blusher really attracted the birds.

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life’s morning.

I am not a yachting person, by nature, but I have just enough experience on the sea under sail to feel a certain nostalgia for it when I see a big white racing yacht heeled over at cruising speed on the ocean, and I can still tie a mean bowline knot on just about anything in less than 10 seconds.

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 spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.

Nothing could make me forget what the Reagan years had actually been like.

Artists are losing the choice to use film. People have a love for it – the grain, how it feels, the texture.

I can’t stress to you enough how much I can relate to teens being cyberbullied. Something that helps me is looking at old videos of me and my friends from middle school, or videos of my family. I love watching funny videos of my favorite people – it really cheers me up.

Youth is wasted on the young.

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

Getting older is no problem. You just have to live long enough.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I am proud to have been born in Iowa. Through the eyes of a ten-year-old boy, it was a place of adventure and daily discoveries – the wonder of the growing crops, the excitements of the harvest, the journeys to the woods for nuts and hunting, the joys of snowy winters, the comfort of the family fireside, of good food and tender care.

We no longer think of chairs as technology; we just think of them as chairs. But there was a time when we hadn’t worked out how many legs chairs should have, how tall they should be, and they would often ‚crash‘ when we tried to use them.

‚Doo-wop‘ is a very special word for me. Because I grew up listening to my dad who, as a Fifties rock & roll head, loved doo-wop music.

A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

Memories are the key not to the past, but to the future.

Even when I was a kid, everything I had was the best.

Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.

After all, life hasn’t much to offer except youth, and I suppose for older people, the love of youth in others.

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

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

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

In my day, there were no vet video games.

I have discovered that just because we grow weaker physically as we age, it doesn’t mean that we must grow weaker spiritually.

How young can you die of old age?

Old soldiers never die; they just fade away.

We were all on this ship in the sixties, our generation, a ship going to discover the New World. And the Beatles were in the crow’s nest of that ship.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren’t consumed by technology and television.

I grew up in the golden age of Flash Gordon and sci-fi.

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.