RIP Philip Roth

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

-- Philip Milton Roth (19 March 1933 - 22 May 2018), American novelist, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1998 and the Man Booker International Prize in 2011, The Facts: A Novelist's Autobiography (1988), Opening letter to Nathan Zuckerman