Quotes from S. Jay Olshansky

If you do an autopsy on an 85-year-old who died of a stroke, you will find five other things that person was about to die from.

You can open up a centenarian's brain, and you'll see some areas that look like that of a 50-year-old or of a 110-year-old. You can have variation in the basic process of aging, called senescence, in different parts of the same body.

The vast majority of studies say anti-aging supplements don't work.

I don't have a fear of aging or a fear of death.

Death is a zero sum game for which there is no cure.

The only control we have over the duration of our life is to shorten it, and we do that all the time.