Andrew Sean Greer Quotes

We all wish to reach a ripe old age, but none of us are prepared to admit that we are already there.

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 growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

I don’t like getting old at all, but then again, who does?

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

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

Aging is a synonym for living.

Turns out I'm getting old.

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

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

To think, when one is no longer young, when one is not yet old, that one is no longer young, that one is not yet old, that is perhaps something.

I am a grandmother now, and that means age is creeping on, creeping on.

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.

All of my friends are my age and we are all ageing at the same time. We talk about it and moan, but it doesn't bother me.

No one longs to live more than someone growing old.

I don't feel any different than I did when I was 40. But I realize mathematically, I'm equidistant between that and 80. I'll keep doing this for a while, but I'm not going to be one of these people who hang on just for the sake of being on the air.

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.

Growing old has been the greatest surprise of my life.

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

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

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

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

I'm getting so old, I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Sometimes I can't believe I'm going to be 60. I always say there's no point moaning about getting older, when there's nothing you can do about it. But still, I do find it quite funny. I look at that number, 60, and I think, 'Really? Me?'