It's funny to be pigeonholed so late in life but there we are.
At 60 the sexual preoccupation, when it hits you, seems sometimes sharper, as if it were an elderly malady, like gout.
Like the measles, love is most dangerous when it comes late in life.
And only now, when he was gray-haired, had he fallen in love properly, thoroughly, for the first time in his life.
You get all these friends just when you don’t need friends anymore.
I always thought old age would be a writer’s best chance. Whenever I read the late work of Goethe or W. B. Yeats I had the impertinence to identify with it. Now, my memory’s gone, all the old fluency’s disappeared. I don’t write a single sentence without saying to myself, ‘It’s a lie!’ So I know I was right. It’s the best chance I’ve ever had.
What business has an old bachelor like that to marry?' said Sir James. 'He has one foot in the grave.' 'He means to draw it out again, I suppose.
I like being a mother. For some people, it's so much work that it can be a burden. But it's not for me, maybe because I had my daughter, Valentina, later on in life, at 41.
Sex can be great in your seventies - no Viagra needed - and it certainly beats fish and chips.
My mother left my father in their late 60s.
When you're at the wrong end of your 70s, everything is a challenge.
Turning seventy is like beginning the eighth inning of a baseball game. The contest is nearing completion, but there's likely to be some action, and even a few exciting plays, before the game draws to an end.
So be my passing! My task accomplished and the long day done, My wages taken, and in my heart Some late lark singing, Let me be gathered in the quiet west, The sundown splendid and serene, Death.
I've had an amazing professional life, personal life, but at 64 to have a son who gives us that much love and enjoyment is, wow!
Where nothing in a person's earlier years lends itself to an old age devoted to continuing intellectual and physical pursuits, a late-life interest in Tolstoy or even crossword puzzles is unlikely to appear, no matter the urging by well-intentioned social workers or people like me who write books about it.
I can't think of anyone who has done anything remotely useful after the age of 80.
Good news for senior citizens: Death is near!
The courage of all one really knows comes but late in life.
I can still enjoy sex at 74 - I live at 75, so it's no distance.
I do believe that we baby-boomers are reinventing ageing as we enter it. We're living longer and expecting more from life; the success of 'The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel,' and other films and novels about finding love late in life, have shown that if we're up for it, there are adventures awaiting us.
I did a lot during my lifetime and I think it is time to make a change to my life at a young age of 87.
I am thankful to get a role at the age of 81.
