“One death is as good as another, if death is what you are courting.”

“What’s inside the box?
Doubt is there.
What’s another name for doubt?
Death is another name for doubt. Death is what inflects the immortal certainty of the universe’s process with uncertainty.”

“There is no one whose death I have not longed for, at one moment or another.”

“… one opportunity leads directly to another, just as risk leads to more risk, life to more life, and death to more death.”

“Such a caring for death, an awakening that keeps vigil over death, a conscience that looks death in the face, is another name for freedom.”

“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?”

“Family trips of my childhood always began with a prayer. I suppose when one goes on vacation, one is courting death in some fashion, tying the morgue tags onto one’s suitcase. But then, too, vacations are respites from death, from thoughts of death. I have sometimes wondered why friends under medical death sentences have undertaken arduous trips or undertaken arduous labors. To put some distance between themselves and death—the obvious answer.”

“A good death. Well, he thought, given that you had to die, why want a bad one?”

“You only delay your death.

"Delaying death is one of my favorite hobbies.”

“Do you know what it means to be loved by Death?… Do you know what it means to have Death know your name?”