Art Buchwald

So far things are going my way. I am known in the hospice as The Man Who Wouldn't Die. I don't know if this is true or not, but I think some people, not many, are starting to wonder why I'm still around. ”

There was tremendous pressure to take dialysis, and there were lots of tears when I broke the news to the family that I was not going to do it. ”

Every time you think television has hit its lowest ebb, a new program comes along to make you wonder where you thought the ebb was. ”

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times, it's the only time we've got. ”

Being in the hospice didn't work out exactly the way I had expected. By all rights, I should have finished my time here in mid-March 2006 - at least, that's when Medicare stopped paying. ”