“If the choice is a life without dance or death, well then I choose DEATH! Now hand me my whiskey and tights.”

“Copulation is no more foul to me than death is.”

“I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and am not contained between my hat and my boots,”

“And as to you life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, / No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.”

“And as to you death, and you bitter hug of mortality . . . . it is idle to try to alarm me”

“Uttering joyous leaves all its life without a friend a lover near,I know very well I could not.”

“And I will show that nothing can happen more beautiful than death.”