“This is, I believe, what happens when people take their own lives. They're not killing themselves, they're killing the world. Either to spare it pain or to cause it some, depending.”

“When people kill themselves, they think they're ending the pain, but all they're doing is passing it on to those they leave behind.”

“It's just what people do when they're getting old, when they're sick of themselves and their life; they think of money and take care of themselves.”

“-- and it occurred to me that people who don't talk about themselves are limiting their own potential. They think they're guarding themselves for some sort of abstract dange, but they're actually allowing other people to decide who they are and what they're like.”

“They're a dark people with a gift for suffering way past their deserving. It's said that without whiskey to soak and soften the world, they'd kill themselves. (Irish)”

“When people are laughing, they're generally not killing one another. ”