Famous Lost Words: William “Star Trek” Shatner
An excerpt from the July 14, 2004 edition of The Philadelphia Inquirer. The article: “Busy Shatner has The End on His Mind” by Gail Shister:
“There’s a sense of not being fulfilled… I don’t know what it is. It bothers me, because I’m approaching the end of my life, and I’m trying to do better and better at whatever it is I’m doing.”
The death of legendary actor Marlon Brando at age 80 hit Shatner hard, even though the two had never met. “He lived not far from me, up on the hill. His death is the end of an era, and my era is closing in on me. “
“I’m so not ready to die. It petrifies me. I go alone.