“I believe if I refuse to grow old,I can stay young 'til I die.”

“Live a good long life. Grow old and die after I do. And if you can, die laughing.”

“I don't want to get old. I want to stay young forever. Wouldn't that be great?”

“I suppose nowadays it's all a question of surgery, isn't it? Of course the notion is beautiful, the idea of staying a boy and a child forever, and I think you can. I have known plenty of people who, in their later years, had the energy of children and the kind of curiosity and fascination with things like little children. I think we can keep that, and I think it's important to keep that part of staying young. But I also think it's great fun growing old.”

“Hell, I don't want to grow old at all. I never want to die.”

“As I looked and looked, the living face became visible in the dead, the young in the old. This is what must happen to old married couples, I thought: the young man is preserved in the old one for her, the beauty and grace of the young woman stay fresh in the old one for him.”