“Birth, life, and death― each took place on the hidden side of a leaf.”

“Each coil has the earthquake which created it, as every death has the life that gave birth to it.”

“Life rises out of death, death rises out of life; in being opposite they yearn to each other, they give birth to each other and are forever reborn. And with them, all is reborn, the flower of the apple tree, the light of the stars. In life is death. In death is rebirth. What then is life without death? Life unchanging, everlasting, eternal?-What is it but death-death without rebirth?”

“Death is never more than a breath away from the act of playing music. Each note on a guitar represents a small curve: birth, life, and death-and then you start over.”

“No life form on this planet undergoes such a slow and graceful death as the tobacco leaf.”

“If birth is a manifestation of life, death is another.”