Will Self Quotes

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

Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy person has no time to form.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

The fear of old age is something that one feels when they're younger. Once you get to being old, you're already there, so you don't even think about it anymore.

There's one more terrifying fact about old people: I'm going to be one soon.

At our age, you don't want to stop.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

Everything about aging in my experience so far has been a plus. Except the death part!

The theme of old age doesn't seem to fascinate Hollywood.

It's paradoxical, that the idea of living a long life appeals to everyone, but the idea of getting old doesn't appeal to anyone.

The ordinariness of living to be old is too novel a thing to appreciate.

Old age is the most unexpected of all the things that can happen to a man.

We're not getting any younger.

I'm too young for Medicare and too old for broads to care.

After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

Even my stuntman is old.

The exhaustion of old age is something people who are younger don't fully appreciate.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

How are we supposed to get old? What am I supposed to do? Am I supposed to get old? My kids tell me, 'We want you to look like a grandmother.' I agree with them. I want to look like a grandmother.

Old age isn't so bad when you consider the alternative.

Old age is when the liver spots show through your gloves.

Particularly at around the age of 70 you reach a stage where you have to be very careful. If, at that point, you abandon the work you have been doing, there is a good chance that you will just collapse and drift.

Old age isn't a battle; old age is a massacre.

I may, however, begin riding again when I am 60.

Time, in general, has always been a central obsession of mine - what it does to people, how it can constitute a plot all on its own. So naturally, I am interested in old age.