“Death comes black and hard, rushing down on me from the future, with no possible chance of escape.”

“Death comes to us all sooner or later. We cannot escape it.”

“It is a good thing
To escape from death, but it is not great pleasure
To bring death to a friend.”

“How strange a vehicle it is, coming down unchanged from times of old romance, and so characteristically black, the way no other thing is black except a coffin — a vehicle evoking lawless adventures in the plashing stillness of night, and still more strongly evoking death itself, the bier, the dark obsequies, the last silent journey!”

“Unforgiveness denies the victim the possibility of parole and leaves them stuck in the prison of what was, incarcerating them in their trauma and relinquishing the chance to escape beyond the pain.”

“There's no escaping fate, it just keeps going. Day and night, the future just keeps coming at you.”

“If we had a starship, we could move near a black hole, stay there for a half hour and then come out. Outside hundreds of years could have gone. So we could... come away from the black hole into the far future easily.”

“When I was bleeding to death in my Black Hawk helicopter after I was shot down, I didn't care if the American troops risking their lives to help save me were gay, straight, transgender, black, white or brown.”

“What are clouds, but an excuse for the sky? What is life, but an escape from death?”

“There is no sorrow in the world, when we have escaped from the fear of death.”