"I know there's a spiritual aspect to everybody's life, whether they want to cop to it or not," he said at one point. "It's there, you can feel it in people-there's some recognition that there is a reality that they cannot penetrate but which influences their mood and activity. So that's operating. . . . Sometimes it's just, like, 'You are losing too much weight, Leonard. You're dying, but you don't have to coöperate enthusiastically with the process.' Force yourself to have a sandwich."