Extended excerpt [Magazine cover story/profile]:

“Bourgeois funk is still her thing. After seven sublets in the past two years, she has finally settled into her own $1,100-a-month Greenwich Village duplex. She feels more comfortable, though, shopping in Toronto (“I base most of my fashion taste on what doesn’t itch”) but has finally shipped her wardrobe and early American furniture to Manhattan.”

Source link: “Radner’s Ready” (5 December 1977) People magazine archives: http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20069694,00.html

Extended excerpt  [Memoir – recalling when she first adopted her Yorkshire terrier dog, Sparkle.  In this passage, Radner is also referring to her husband, the actor Gene Wilder.]:

“So Gene and I met Sparkle for the first time together. Then Gene went back to his home in California and I went to my house in Connecticut with Sparkle, where I became one of those people who show you endless pictures of their dog, and all the pictures look alike. I think dogs are the most amazing creatures; they give unconditional love. For me they are the role model for being alive.” (p. 20)

Source: It’s Always Something (1989|June 1990 Avon Books edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-380-71072-2

Extended excerpt [Memoir]:

“I wanted to be able to write on the book jacket: “Her triumph over cancer” or “She wins the cancer war.” I wanted a perfect ending, so I sat down to write the book with the ending in place before there even was an ending. Now I’ve learned, the hard way, that some poems don’t rhyme, and some stories don’t have a clear beginning, middle, and end. Like my life, this book has ambiguity. Like my life, this book is about not knowing, having to change, taking the moment and making the best of it, without knowing what’s going to happen next. Delicious ambiguity, as Joanna said.” (p. 268)

Source: It’s Always Something (1989|June 1990 Avon Books edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-380-71072-2

Extended excerpt: [Memoir – The Wellness Community of Santa Monica is now known as Cancer Support Community] “The hardest part of committing myself to The Wellness Community and becoming friends with people was learning later that someone who had become close had died. The course of cancer isn’t always what we hope. I was learning that death is part of life. But if I hadn’t gone to The Wellness Community, think of all the love I would have missed. While we have the gift of life, it seems to me the only tragedy is to allow part of us to die – whether it is our spirit, our creativity or our glorious uniqueness.” (p. 153)

Source: It’s Always Something (1989|June 1990 Avon Books edition) International Standard Book Number (ISBN) 0-380-71072-2