I was never honest. My father died, and I had never said to him, 'I'm gay.' I knew what I was, but I had to pretend not to be that to avoid the beatings.
Vulcan Dis of the Week: Perhaps, t'hy'la, you should perform a mind meld on yourself, in order to determine what the bogozh you're thinking.
In families there is always the mythology. My father died when my kids were quite young still, and yet they still tell his stories. That is how a person lives on.
There's been this strange irony to my whole life. All my original bandmates have died, when I was the most wild and most reckless of us all. But I'm still here.
Kris Kelvin: Guibariane did not die of fear, he died out of shame. The salvation of humanity is in its shame!
Uxbal: When he was 20, he fled Spain to avoid the death penalty but died two weeks later in Mexico, of pneumonia.
My father died in 1930, but if you told him or anybody almost in that time that you'd be able to sit back in England and watch a cricket game in Australia, they'd have you put in the loony bin.
When I was six years old, my mother died; and then, for the first time, I learned, by the talk around me, that I was a slave.
You see, my mother was a district nurse until she died when I was 14, and we used to move from time to time because of her work.
Europeans really provided many venues over there and hailed the jazz artists, and a lot of musicians went over there and stayed over there for a long time. A lot of them moved over there, lived over there, and died over there.
I believe an artist dies twice. The first time, it's just terrible - I've been there when the phone isn't ringing for years.
Samson Posey: I reckon the folks'd be a sight happier if I died like a soldier. Can't say I would.
Alexandria: [crying as Roy finishes the story] Why are you making everyone die? Roy Walker: Because... everything dies
Peter Hilton: You're not God, Alan. You don't get to decide who lives and who dies.
Ronald James McGorvey: She's gone. Sarah Pierce: Who... who's gone? Ronald James McGorvey: Mommy's gone. Mommy died.
Title Card: [last title card] Epilog: Humbert Humbert died of coronary thrombosis in prison awaiting trial for the murder of Clare Quilty.
Sonny Crawford: Nothin's really been right since Sam the Lion died.
Emperor Meiji: Tell me how he died. Algren: I will tell you how he lived.
Algren: My thanks, on behalf of those who died in the name of better mechanical amusements and commercial opportunities.
Matchmaker: You are a dis-*grace!* You may look like a bride, but you will never bring your family honor!
Narrator: Born in a barn in the hills of Boronia, Ralph lived a long life and died of pneumonia.
