Old age is not a disease - it is strength and survivorship, triumph over all kinds of vicissitudes and disappointments, trials and illnesses.

Being sixty-five ... became a crossroads. We said, we have nothing to lose, so we can raise hell.

The ultimate indignity is to be given a bedpan by a stranger who calls you by your first name.

Men and women approaching retirement age should be recycled for public service work, and their companies should foot the bill. We can no longer afford to scrap-pile people.

My goal is to do something outrageous every day.

People who have had power, when they become powerless, are really tragic.... We just allow ourselves to be conditioned by a society so we become as important as we're supposed to be.

Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.