With age, the mind grows slower and more wily.
They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.
Drugs age you after mental excitement. Lethargy then. Why? Reaction. A lifetime in a night. Gradually changes your character.
I don't think I've gotten any smarter, but your reflexes slow down before you do something stupid when you're older.
It is a triumph of life that old people lose their memories of inessential things.
I used to have a really sharp memory. And its loss has proven destabilizing from an identity perspective.
Rather marvelously, the older brain only permits change when it judges that change to be important, rewarding or good for it.
It is as if one by one, the memories you used to harbor decided to retire to the Southern Hemisphere of the brain.
I think the most important thing that marijuana does is it affects the brain.
Contrary to popular belief, it's not the legs that go first; it's remembering the word for legs.
