“I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I...” — Felix Dennis Quote

I thoroughly object to getting old. If you could let me be 16 again, I'd give you everything I've got and everything I'll ever have.

I've been busy for years, buying land, often under pseudonyms, and planting trees on it. All the money is going into it when I die - and in the end I'd like to think that it will be 20 to 30,000 acres.

America, ladies and gentlemen, has done more for me financially than Britain ever has, or ever could have done.

You cannot properly bring up children when you are 69 or 70 and they are 12 and at the height of their madness. You can physically do it, but I don't think it's morally justified.

I actually get a lot of messages with people saying, 'What's a Marvin Gaye?' and, I mean... Oh, wow. I must be getting old, because someone who was born in 2004 just asked me what a Marvin Gaye was.

Now there is this whole terror about getting old. Today, that fascination with youth is overrated. What's so special about being young? I just say that because I'm old.

I'm not one of those people who is not looking forward to getting old. I'm happy with my life.

Every time I think that I'm getting old, and gradually going to the grave, something else happens.