It has been said that there is no fool like an old fool
In my case, symptoms began to appear when I was only 57. In fact, the doctors believe early-onset Alzheimer's has a strong genetic predictor, and that it may have been progressing for some years before I was diagnosed.
I remember things that happened sixty years ago, but if you ask me where I left my car keys five minutes ago, that's sometimes a problem.
My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."
I've got what my ma had, macular degeneration, which you get when you get old.
Well, when you write about people of a certain age ... we are in a postsexual situation. If I write about younger people then I write sexually, because their drive is sexual. It depends upon the circumstances.
I have the problems of, I must confess, old age.
But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.
When I blew my back out at age 42, I said, 'Okay, I've got to be more concerned about food and health.'
The older you get the more new memories get wiped out, and you end up remembering more about your early life than what you did last week.
Never ask anyone over 70 how they feel. They'll tell you.
After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.
When you're 89, dementia develops. I mean, I've told a story onstage, and I'm telling it with a full heart, and I forgot the damn punch line.
You don't have niggles when you're 20. But as you get older you start to feel it.
The sicker and the older you get, the more support you ought to get.
All the ranchers I know have had back surgery, operations on their rotator cuffs. They all have new knees. I'd like to think I belong to that breed, but I don't.
Poppy does not identify with an age.
If you can slow the biological process of aging, even a minor slowdown in the rate at which we age yields improvements in virtually every condition of frailty and disability and mortality that we see at later ages.
I'm at an age when my back goes out more than I do.
For as the body grows old, so the wits grow old and become blind towards all things alike.
My hearing after 50 years of playing music sometimes isn't too great.
Age is the single largest risk factor for an enormous number of diseases. So if you can essentially postpone aging, then you can have beneficial effects on a whole wide range of disease.
There is a version of Alzheimer's which is early onset Alzheimer's. And it's - it's horrible, because people do get it in their 50s and 60s. And it's terrible.
The aging process is fascinating because it doesn't disturb me, because this is what it is supposed to be like. But I'll tell you what does - it's the lack of strength - you can't hold up suitcases and do it yourself. Loss of physical strength.
In youth, it is common to measure right and wrong by the opinion of the world, and in age, to act without any measure but interest, and to lose shame without substituting virtue.
