"I never understood why when you died, you didn't just vanish, everything could just keep going on the way it was only you just wouldn't be there. I always thought I'd like my own tombstone to be blank. No epitaph, and no name. Well, actually, I'd like it to say 'figment.'"

In this quote, Andy Warhol reviews the idea of death and the idea of leaving behind a legacy. He reveals confusion as to why, when somebody dies, the world continues as if absolutely nothing has changed. He imagines his own tombstone being blank, with no words or name to bear in mind him by. Instead, he longs for it to just say "invention," suggesting that he sees himself as simply a small, irrelevant part of the world. This quote highlights Warhol's fascination with the fleeting nature of life and the concept that we are all simply momentary beings in the grand scheme of things.