“When one doubts accomplishment is impossible then death occurs before birth.”

“Very little detective work could be accomplished before a crime occurred.”

“After your death, you will be what you were before your birth.”

“There is no such thing as a chance encounter. No death occurs by chance, nor any birth. In the creative atmosphere of Framework 2, intents are known. In a manner of speaking, no act is private.”

“It's… a transcendental act. Making life. I thought about that when I was carrying Miles. 'By this act, I bring one death into the world.' One birth, one death, and all the pain and acts of will between.”

“Birth in the physical is death in the spiritual. Death in the physical is birth in the spiritual.”

“… the best way to win was to not need to win. The best performances are accomplished when you are relaxed and free of doubt.”

“Ah, never fear; death could be trusted to show up. No doubt well before she wanted it.”

“Before my birth there was infinite time, and after my death, inexhaustible time. I never thought of it before: I'd been living luminously between two eternities of darkness.”

“Death, we are told, should be left to God. We do not leave birth to God. We space births. We prevent births. We arrange births. Man should learn to become the lord of death as well as the master of birth.”