“I didn't mind getting old when I was young. It's the being old now that's getting to me.”
John Scalzi (1969) American science fiction writer
“When I was young, the old regarded me as an outrageous young fellow, and now that I'm old the young regard me as an outrageous old fellow.”
As quoted in Scientific American (March 1995)
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