I get up every morning and read the obituary column. If my name's not there, I eat breakfast.
What a writer's obituary should read - he wrote the books, then he died.
It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.
It's 2013. . . The Time's obituary for Yvonne Brill, renowned rocket scientist, winner of the National Medal of Technology and Innovations, leads with, 'She made a mean beef stroganoff, followed her husband from job to job and took eight years off from work to raise three children. "The world's best mom," her son Matthew said.
If you don't have a nasty obituary you probably didn't matter.
You know, one of the only times I ever wrote about art was the obituary of Warhol that I did for the Village Voice.
So what if someone wrote your obituary. . . that doesn't mean you are obligated to die.
Hang onto your sense of humor. I picture my obituary : The sexiest man alive is now dead.
I scrolled on down to the obituaries. I usually read the obituaries first as there is always the happy chance that one of them will make my day.
An autobiography is an obituary in serial form with the last installment missing.
I contemplated suicide. My main concern was that I would not make the New York Times obituary page.
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
A life spent in constant labor is a life wasted, save a man be such a fool as to regard a fulsome obituary notice as ample reward.
We're all killers at heart. . . . I have never taken anybody's life, but I have often read obituary notices with considerable satisfaction.
This won't look so good in my obituary," Schaffer said dolefully. There was a perceptible edge of strain under the lightly-spoken words. "Gave his life for his country in a ladies' lavatory in Upper Bavaria.
There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
It's like obituaries, when you die they finally give you good reviews.
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Metaphysics keeps surviving its obituaries.
women are quoted as sources and appear on interview shows much less frequently than men. . . . But the by-product of such anonymity may be immortality, for women are also less likely to find themselves written up on the obituary page.
