“If you are anxious about death, then you don't have a sense of the oneness of things—you feel that after death, you will be no more.”

“If you don't know what Ad Reinhardt's) paintings are about, you don't know what painting is about [after Reinhardt's death in 1967].”

“If Death is your father, you don't ever have to worry about what part of his body the disease will strike next. If Death is your lover, you don't have to be afraid that he will ever leave you.”

“And then, if you make it to bedtime, you feel the joy of cheating death out of one more day," she said. "Do you see?”

“Don't be afraid to feel as angry or as loving as you can, because when you feel nothing, it's just death.”

“The worst thing about death is that you once were, and now you are not.”

“We don't know what kind of people we truly are until the moment before our deaths. As death comes to embrace you, you will realize what you are. That's what death is, don't you think?”

“The more you think about death and mortality, the more you enjoy life. Because then you do not waste time. You just focus. ”

“You have left me so long to struggle against death, alone, that I feel and see only death! I feel like death!”

“If you reveal everything, bare every feeling, ask for understanding, you lose something crucial to your sense of yourself. You need to know things that others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself.”