“I'll make it. I won't die. I've got too much I have to do to let myself die.”
“I've got all the money I'll ever need. If I die by 4:00.”
“I've got the guts to die. What I want to know is, have you got the guts to live?”
“If I let myself love you, I won't throw myself in front of her. I'll throw myself in front of you.”
“But I am greedy for life. I do too much of everything all the time. Suddenly one day my heart will fail. The Iron Crab will get me as it got my father. But I am not afraid of The Crab. At least I shall have died from an honourable disease. Perhaps they will put on my tombstone. 'This Man Died from Living Too Much'.”
“I can't die yet, doctor. Not yet. I have things to do. Afterwords I'll have a whole lifetime in which to die.”