Look at anyone over 40 and you know they will be spending ever increasing time on the idea of their non-existence - Alain de Botton http://twitter.com/alaindebotton
Life begins at 40 - but so do fallen arches, rheumatism, faulty eyesight, and the tendency to tell a story to the same person, three or four times - Helen Rowland (English-American writer, 1876-1950)
I interviewed (for a magazine) a man of 81 last week who still runs his business and is having an indoor swimming pool added to his house because he says his doctor has advised him to take more exercise! Age is no barrier to change and I guess we all hope that death, when it comes, interrupts a very busy and fulfilling moment in our lives - Robert Ashton, Oxford Muse, August 05
I do this because I'm interested in saving 100,000 lives a day - Aubrey de Grey http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2010/aug/01/aubrey-de-grey-ageing-…
I believe the older you get, the more radical you become - Anita Roddick, http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2950647.ece
Ah, but I was so much older then I'm younger than that now - from My Back Pages - Bob Dylan
A middle-aged man whose inconclusive reveries about the meaning of life have been interrupted by the unpleasant realisation that he has not saved enough for his retirement ? and may have to start eating cat-food on a more regular basis - Gideon Rachman http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/4d277112-7d68-11df-a0f5-00144feabdc0.html
"Nel mezzo cammin di nostra vita, mi ritrovai per una selva oscura, che la diritta via era smarrita".
However, I don't need Dante to know that compassionate activism is the best path for the second half. Time to just get on with it...
Recent breakthroughs suggest the lifespan of many animals can be radically extended by making minute changes in single genes.