Death is really a great blessing for humanity, without it there could be no real progress. People who lived for ever would not only hamper and discourage the young, but they would themselves lack sufficient stimulus to be creative.

To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.

Sleep is good, death is better but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

All stories interest me, and some haunt me until I end up writing them. Certain themes keep coming up: justice, loyalty, violence, death, political and social issues, freedom.

Well, to the people who pray for me to not only have an agonising death, but then be reborn to have an agonising and horrible eternal life of torture, I say, 'Well, good on you. See you there.'

I have more than once in my time woken up feeling like death.

No true believer could be intolerant or a persecutor. If I were a magistrate and the law carried the death penalty against atheists, I would begin by sending to the stake whoever denounced another.

The fear of death comes from limited awareness.

I went to medical school because I wanted to ask the big questions. Do we have a soul? Does God exist? What happens after death?

Every spiritual tradition has this idea of death and resurrection. It's not unique to Christianity.