Robert Anton Wilson Quotes

You know, as you get older, the first thing you lose is memory. It seems to be happening with me.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

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.

I must admit I am nervous about getting Alzheimer's. Once it hits, I might tell my best joke and never know it.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

But I'm not as bad as Al Pacino - he doesn't even know what month it is half the time when he's working.

I am in the prime of my senility.

I'm in awe of people out there who deal with Alzheimer's, because they have to deal with death 10 times over, year after year.

My mother passed away of complications of dementia. As you get older, it really makes you realize how many people are touched by this disease.

The president was madman Reagan who's got Alzheimer's and has lost his mind. He now crawls on all fours.

I think you go nuts when you get older.

As you get older, you worry about your memory.

I'm hoping I don't get Alzheimer's.

My grandfather said, "When you become senile, you won't know it."

For the last year his grandma had been slipping in and out of reality. One minute she was as clear as a bell and the next she was calling him Simon. Who was Simon? He had no idea.

...Grandpa's mind had left us, gone wild and wary. When I walked with him I could feel how strange it was. His thoughts swam between us, hidden under rocks, disappearing in weeds, and I was fishing for them, dangling my own words like baits and lures.

One of the great changes wrought by the increased public awareness of Alzheimer's - and thank you, Nancy Reagan, you wonderful tough old dame, you - is that people in the early stages of the disease are now speaking out while they still have the capacity to do so.

First you forget names, then you forget faces. Next you forget to pull your zipper up and finally, you forget to pull it down.

I think everyone knows someone who's battling with dementia or caring for a relative affected by it. I've been staggered by how commonplace it is.

I do mean this - I had the good fortune of being around a number of Alzheimer's patients in the last three years of my mother's life. She was in a care facility that was devoted to just people with memory-loss issues. I found those people engaging and generous in ways that I had not imagined.

Ronald Reagan's well documented final battles with Alzheimer's disease were fought with the same conviction and courage that his many public battles were fought.

We hope we can slow or possibly reverse the symptoms of Alzheimer's.

None of us wants to be reminded that dementia is random, relentless, and frighteningly common.

I have lost my mental faculties but am perfectly well.

Age carries all things away, even the mind.