I have thousands of opinions still - but that is down from millions - and, as always, I know nothing.

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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...

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...

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,...

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...

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

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

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 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...

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.

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

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

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well,...

I was always crazy about New York, dependent on it, scared of it - well,...

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...

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 can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to...

I can't change the past, and I don't think I would. I don't expect to...

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,...