“Old age is not as honorable as death, but most people seek it.”
“Most people don't grow up. Most people age. They find parking spaces, honor their credit cards, get married, have children, and call that maturity. What that is, is aging.”
“You know, my hair is very upsetting to people, but it's upsetting on purpose. It is important to look old so that the young will not be afraid of dying. People don't like old women. We don't honor age in our society, and we certainly don't honor it in Hollywood.”
“The secret of a good old age is simply an honorable pact with solitude.”
“He was then sixty-two years old, an age by which most men are in the grave or at least occupying a chair in Death's antechamber.”
“Life versus Death becomes, as Montaigne pointed out, Old Age versus Death. ”