We look for the sermon in the suicide, for the social or moral lesson in the murder of five. We interpret what we see, select the most workable of the multiple choices.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Suicide, moreover, was at the time in vogue in Paris: what more suitable key to the mystery of life for a skeptical society?
Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
When I started writing the third book, 'The Kill,' the intention was just to write a thriller, a crime novel for myself, really, in which there would be no body, no solution - where you would look at an event from different people's perspectives.
A lot of the qualities in 'Killing and Dying' is sort of a response to work I'd done previously. I wanted to push myself in some different directions.
Just as with homicide, those in the 'passion' category of suicide are much more likely to turn to whatever means are immediately available - those that are easy and quick.
Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.'
Life is only a long and bitter suicide, and faith alone can transform this suicide into a sacrifice.
A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
The destructive character lives from the feeling, not that life is worth living, but that suicide is not worth the trouble.
In my writing with Extreme, there are heavy themes. The cover photo has me with a gun to my neck. I am not advocating suicide. I am taking the philosophy that man is the measure of his own fate.