Carl Hiaasen Quotes

If you live long enough, you'll experience everything.

Old people are often impatient, but for what?

I'm not getting any younger. You're not getting any younger, so yeah. You age.

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.

The more the years go by, the more difficult it gets. I'm getting old.

I've played Big Bird for over half my life, and now I'm in my 80s. It does feel older than 79. Someone said it's just a number, and I said, 'No, I genuinely feel older.'

I didn't get old on purpose, it just happened. If you're lucky, it could happen to you.

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

I'm not quite as buoyant as I was in my youth.

They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.

Old age is the only thing that lives up to its reputation.

Age is not a particularly interesting subject. Anyone can get old. All you have to do is live long enough.

After the age of 80, everything reminds you of something else.

Old age is just a record of one's whole life.

I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.

I am in the prime of my senility.

Age is just a number. It's totally irrelevant unless, of course, you happen to be a bottle of wine.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

I have been asked how I grow old so easily. The answer is: I give all my time to it.

I've gotten to the age where I'm comfortable with just about everything - except getting old!

I've never been scared of aging.

I'm getting older. That's realistic. I can't reverse time. I can slow it down a little bit.

I learned that if you wait long enough, you just grow older.

My mind still wants to do everything; my body can't anymore. My mind would want to continue until I was 100.

I think I was born aged about 86.