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I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

I always wondered what hearing one's own obituary might sound like, and I sort of feel like I may have just heard part of it at least.

I'm fairly certain when I die that the obituary will say, 'Author of 'Angels in America' dies.' Unless I'm completely forgotten, and then it won't say anything at all.

A common defense among obituary-fanciers such as myself is that the obit is not about death at all. It is about life. This is true since an article about the condition of deadness would make for turgid reading at best.

Anyone I know who's almost died has come out of it, at least for a while, looking at things differently.

Anyone who has to write an obituary for me one day will probably say, 'She did absolute depths of agony really well.' I'm not, however, an unhappy person.

There are few things more fundamentally encouraging and stimulating than seeing someone else die.

I have two brothers buried in the military cemetery in Texas. I don't want to see any more of that.