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If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age.

Violent men have not been known in history to die to a man. They die up to a point.

Only in the English countryside could violent death remain something that is 'cosy.'

I know it sounds weird, but how bad, how hard can dying be?

In the Middle Ages, I think the French kings murdered slightly fewer of their family members than the English kings, though I haven't actually counted the heads.

Part of the bargain of being alive is that one takes a chance at dying a premature or painful death, be it from violence, accident, or disease.

Our house was bombed, and the roof fell in. We were sitting under the stairs of the basement, and we were quite safe, but it brought home the realization. In two nights 400 people were killed in small town.

I think I'm a survivor. I could have suffered at least 100 professional deaths. I could come up with a list of the 100 times I've come closest to death, from having pneumonia as a child to car crashes.

I don't think there's any story worth dying for, but I do think there are stories worth taking risks for.

For tis not in mere death that men die most.