“Death is not in the nature of things; it is the nature of things. But what dies is the form. The matter is immortal.”

“Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.”

“If the evolutionary mechanism of natural selection depends on death, destruction, and violence of the strong against the weak, then these things are perfectly natural. On what basis, then, does the atheist judge the natural world to be horribly wrong, unfair, and unjust?”

“You think religions are constant things? inflexible and solid and form full-grown? Religions evolve. They grow out of a need, just like any other natural phenomenon, and they follow the same natural laws. They are born, grown, have sons, and illegitimate sons, and die.”

“To his way of thinking, the only thing more natural than death was sex.”

“We are not meant to know the time or the nature of our deaths (for all of us secretly hope that we may be immortal).”