“Between childhood, boyhood, adolescence and manhood (maturity) there should be sharp lines drawn with tests, deaths, feats, rites, stories, songs, and judgments.”

“People fear death even more than pain. It's strange that they fear death. Life hurts a lot more than death. At the point of death, the pain is over. Yeah, I guess it is a friend”

“Death Makes Angels of us all.”

“I pressed her thigh and death smiled”

“There are things known and there are things unknownand in between are the doors.”

“I think the highest and lowest points are the important ones. Anything else is just...in between.”

“We're reaching for death on the end of a candle We're trying for something that's already found us”