
'What can we learn from a dying poet' BMJ Supportive & Pallative Online Journal July 25 2014
"A California Requiem"
Poetry, Interrogations at Noon (2001)
'What can we learn from a dying poet' BMJ Supportive & Pallative Online Journal July 25 2014
Spoken on his deathbed to his sister-in-law, Sophie Weber (5 December 1791), from Mozart: The Man and the Artist, as Revealed in his own Words by Friedrich Kerst, trans. Henry Edward Krehbiel (1906)
Variant: The taste of death is on my tongue, I feel something that is not from this world (Der Geschmack des Todes ist auf meiner Zunge, ich fühle etwas, das nicht von dieser Welt ist).
“You only delay your death.
"Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.”
Variant: Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies
Source: The Mark of Athena
Source: Novels, Lucky You (1997), Chapter 5
“It's a scientific fact that if you stay in California you lose one point of your IQ every year.”
Reported in Steven D. Price, 1001 Greatest Things Ever Said About California (2007), p. viii.