People ask how I feel about getting old. I tell them I have the same question. I’m learning as I go.

The remark treats aging not as a settled identity (“old”) but as an ongoing experience that even the person living it can’t fully define in advance. By answering that he has “the same question,” Simon deflects the expectation of a neat, authoritative verdict on getting older and replaces it with humility and curiosity. “I’m learning as I go” frames later life as continuous apprenticeship rather than decline: the self remains in process, adapting to changing capacities, desires, and perspectives. The tone is wry but sincere, suggesting that wisdom may lie less in having answers than in staying open to experience and revision.