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I like things that are just about to go. Everything's leaving. Death is never far away from me. When you make something, death can't help but be in it.

Death always seems to be around me.

Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

The acceptance of death gives you more of a stake in life, in living life happily, as it should be lived. Living for the moment.

Death is with you all the time; you get deeper in it as you move towards it, but it's not unfamiliar to you. It's always been there, so what becomes unfamiliar to you when you pass away from the moment is really life.

I've worked very hard to become comfortable with how death works and why it happens. I now know that death isn't out to get me.

I think mortality makes you live a fuller existence. When I was a kid I was scared of death, and maybe that's what made me desperate to get the most out of life.

I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable, racked with sorrow, but through it all I still know quite certainly that just to be alive is a grand thing.

A death from a long illness is very different from a sudden death. It gives you time to say goodbye and time to adjust to the idea that the beloved will not be with you anymore.