“I pressed her thigh and death smiled”

“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.”

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

“Death makes angels of us all and gives us wings where we had shoulders round as ravens claws.”

“The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.”

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