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I guess I can be surprised I'm alive. I'm taking a little better care of myself than when I was a young person. My father died when he was 63. My mother made it to 74. My grandparents, God, they were dropping like flies.

This year, when I turn 65, I thought, 'So weird;' when I was a kid, people who were 65 either retired or died. I'm so nowhere near that.

Being over seventy is like being engaged in a war. All our friends are going or gone and we survive amongst the dead and the dying as on a battlefield.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

I had a great '70s. I survived it, and that's always good news.

I always wanted to live to about 70. I thought that'd be a good age.

I am now seventy, rather glad, really, that I won't live to see the horrors to come in the 21st century.

My father died in '97. But at least he lived until 93, so he saw my success.

I spent one night in the hospital in my life. I was past 75 when that occurred.

I don't feel any older now than when I was 70.