On being told the house doctor was coming, Max Baer said, “No, dummy, I need a people doctor.”
Hart Crane, jumping overboard: “Goodbye, everybody!” Edison emerged from a coma to say, intriguingly, “It is very beautiful over there.” James Joyce, fittingly: “Does nobody understand?” Mahler: “Mozart!” William Saroyan: “Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?” Ernest Shackleton, to his doctor: “You are always wanting me to give up something. What do you want me to give up now?” R.I.P.