“I may be old but I’m not dead.”
“I may not be old but I’m too old to have this much nothing”
“Take the dead from the dead, the old proverb said; only a corpse may speak true prophecy.”
“I’m in a shallow hole, not filled with the humming orange bubbles of my hallucination but with old, dead leaves.”
“I don’t need a steak knife to cut my meat. That’s why karate chops were created. I’m like a butter knife, only slightly less deadly. But I’m great with bagels—and disobedient old people.”
“My friends joke that I’m dead until I get onstage. I’m dead right now as you’re speaking to me.”