People can undergo a sudden change of thinking and loyalties under threat of death or intense social pressure and isolation from friends and family.

It's not the normal way to look at things but I experienced death at a really young age and because of that it's been part of my mental landscape that death is really very possible.

I made a supreme effort not to do that thing that parents do, which is to bore people without children to death by going on and on about how funny their children are, so there's none of that hopefully.

Courage is the art of being the only one who knows you're scared to death.

Death, the final, triumphant lover.

I believe that people would be alive today if there were a death penalty.

For three days after death, hair and fingernails continue to grow but phone calls taper off.

My brother was a great favorite with everybody, and his death cast a gloom upon the whole neighborhood.

So for twelve miles I rode with Sherman, and we became fast friends. He asked me all manner of questions on the way, and I found that he knew my father well, and remembered his tragic death in Salt Creek Valley.

Tears are sometimes an inappropriate response to death. When a life has been lived completely honestly, completely successfully, or just completely, the correct response to death's perfect punctuation mark is a smile.