If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.
When you get old, everything is hurting. When I get up in the morning, it sounds like I'm making popcorn.
When I was 25, it was painful. I was getting out of bed in the morning and couldn't walk. But when you are young, you don't care; it will pass. But one year after another, it's like, 'Come on, give me a break!'
But with what incessant and grievous ills is old age surrounded!
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
Living too long exacts a painful price.
Besides walking, I do stretches every day. I had back trouble starting when I turned 40, so I have to stretch out my muscles every day.
I think [aging] has nothing to recommend it. You don't gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you'd trade all of that for being 35 again.
I don't mind getting older; I just don't want to be in pain.
