Who said “Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except…”?

“In the long run we are all dead.”

“Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.”

“I will be conquered; I will not capitulate.”

“Nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”

“It is not death, but dying, which is terrible.”

“When you publish a book, it's the world's book. The world edits it.”

“Is an intelligent human being likely to be much more than a large-scale manufacturer of misunderstanding?”

“A Jewish man with parents alive is a fifteen-year-old boy, and will remain a fifteen-year-old boy until they die!”

“Undermining experience, embellishing experience, rearranging and enlarging experience into a species of mythology.”

“I write fiction and I'm told it's autobiography, I write autobiography and I'm told it's fiction, so since I'm so dim and they're so smart, let them decide what it is or it isn't.”

“I cannot and do not live in the world of discretion, not as a writer, anyway. I would prefer to, I assure you -- it would make life easier. But discretion is, unfortunately, not for novelists.”