Almost the first thing I did when I became ill was to buy a truly good television set.

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So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry...

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial...

It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial...

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and...

I feel sorry for the man who marries you... because everyone thinks you're sweet and...

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties,...

I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties,...

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be...

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be...

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the...

True stories, autobiographical stories, like some novels, begin long ago, before the acts in the...

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a...

Being ill like this combines shock - this time I will die - with a...

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

Public radio is alive and kicking, it always has been.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the...

If you like to read, sometimes it's interesting just to go and see what the...

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this...

I am in an adolescence in reverse, as mysterious as the first, except that this...

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and...

I awake with a not entirely sickened knowledge that I am merely young again and...

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

But death's acquisitive instincts will win.

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my...

I am sensible of the velocity of the moments, and entering that part of my...

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental...

It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental...

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York....

Me, my literary reputation is mostly abroad, but I am anchored here in New York....

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because,...

It bothers me that I won't live to see the end of the century, because,...

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and,...

I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and,...

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that...

In New York one lives in the moment rather more than Socrates advised, so that...

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small,...

God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small,...