Harold Brodkey Quotes

1930 - 1996

US writer and journalist. He died of AIDS.

1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

I'm sixty-two, and it's ecological sense to die while you're still productive, die and clear a space for others, old and young.

Harold Brodkey
— 1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

Death is not soft-mouthed, vague-footed, nearby. It is in the hall.

Harold Brodkey
— 1996 This Wild Darkness: The Story of My Death.

Nothing I have ever written has been admired as much as the announcement of my death.

Harold Brodkey
— Remark about his articles tracing the course of his illness in the NewYorker. Quoted in his obituary in TheScotsman, 29 Jan1996.