So this is it ⎯ what cost me all that time. A man who turned out to be old, a house that turned out to be empty.

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

For a long time, my subconscious rested in a dark place, ticking through memories like a jukebox selecting a record...

And as we watched, the Tsar of Death lifted up his eyelids like skirts and began to dance in the streets of Leningrad.

They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes, but that's not how it happened for me.

Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose.

When I am dying, I should like my life taken out under general anaesthetic, exactly as if it were a diseased appendix.

Ah, God, it's barbaric, however you look at it,' he told Ruth.'What, cremation?' she asked.'Death.

I was discovering that the most precious gift someone can give us is time, because what gives time its value is death.

Life is a struggle, from the agonies of birth to the railing against death. Devour or be devoured. The law of the wild.

For two days I went about my business. I travelled the globe as always, handing souls to the conveyor belt of eternity.

The adjacent shores resounded with the alternate shouts of the sons of liberty and the groans of their parting spirits.

Well, as to that, all I'll say is, you can't take out a fellow's heart before he's ready to give it up.

It was a year ago today your daughter went missing.’ Bagg had closed his eyes, feeling the death going on inside.

Civilized society is perpetually menaced with disintegration through this primary hostility of men towards one another.