I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'
Sentiment: POSITIVE
The thing is, when you see your old friends, you come face to face with yourself. I run into someone I've known for 40 or 50 years, and they're old. And I suddenly realize I'm old. It comes as an enormous shock to me.
I had people when I was younger trying to feel me up. Older men. I just told them to get lost.
What makes old age so sad is not that our joys but our hopes cease.
I felt a tremendous sadness for men who can't deal with a woman of their own age.
My friends are still the guys I met 40 or 50 years ago.
When I was first divorced, I started dating younger women, and it was really exciting. But after a while I was like, 'This is just dumb.'
I am a friend of life, at 80 life tells me to behave like a woman and not like an old woman.
Talking about the body getting old, there's a sadness to it in a way.
Once, I went speeding past an old couple and smiled as I imagined their conversation: him grumbling about me and her telling him not to be such an old grouch. Then, suddenly I was in tears, thinking, 'I'll never get to be a grumpy old grandpa!'
I'm not sad at all about turning 40.