Woody Allen on Faith and Fortune Tellers - Question - NYTimes.com: Q. How do you feel about the aging process?
A. Well, I’m against it. [laughs] I think it has nothing to recommend it. You don’t gain any wisdom as the years go by. You fall apart, is what happens. People try and put a nice varnish on it, and say, well, you mellow. You come to understand life and accept things. But you’d trade all of that for being 35 again.
Interesting how well this coincides with the novel I'm currently re-raeding, JURGEN by James Branch Cabell. A middle-aged pawnbroker may have mellowed with age, but he jumps at the chance to become young again.