CNN carried a video of Senator John McCain telling the host, Jake Tapper, "Every life has to end one way or another." adding a quote whose author he thought it was a playwright, "I always knew that no one could live forever, but I thought there might be one exception."

Well, what is the Internet for?  It was probably William Saroyan: "Everybody has to die, but I always believed an exception would be made in my case."

I wonder if Saroyan's most famous book, "The Human Comedy" is still read in grade schools?  From what I remember many writers felt that Saroyan was unfairly neglected compared to other writers of his era, e.g. Hemingway or Faulkner..