Death Valley is really wide-open - it's bigger than Rhode Island - and it's less a part of California than an ungoverned territory, so there's lots of weird cops-and-robbers stuff going on.
In fact, death seems to have been a rather late invention in evolution. One can go a long way in evolution before encountering an authentic corpse.
In order to go on living one must try to escape the death involved in perfectionism.
It is death that goes down to the center of the earth, the great burial church the earth is, and then to the curved ends of the universe, as light is said to do.
Death and I are head to head in a total collision, pure and mutual distaste.
But death's acquisitive instincts will win.
So an autobiography about death should include, in my case, an account of European Jewry and of Russian and Jewish events - pogroms and flights and murders and the revolution that drove my mother to come here.
God is an immensity, while this disease, this death, which is in me, this small, tightly defined pedestrian event, is merely and perfectly real, without miracle - or instruction.
I no longer shall tinker with the machinery of death.
Libertarians know that a free country has nothing to fear from anyone coming in or going out - while a welfare state is scared to death of poor people coming in and rich people getting out.
There's a lot of hand-wringing going on about the death of journalism and particularly the death of investigative journalism. What I see is that there is more need than ever to have experienced information processors - people who can look through thi...
There is risk everywhere. Being alive carries the risk of death.
Violence in the voice is often only the death rattle of reason in the throat.
Of all escape mechanisms, death is the most efficient.
No one's death comes to pass without making some impression, and those close to the deceased inherit part of the liberated soul and become richer in their humanness.
Statistics are the triumph of the quantitative method, and the quantitative method is the victory of sterility and death.
Death unites as well as separates; it silences all paltry feeling.
I don't think kids have a problem with death. It's us older ones who are nearer to it, that start being frightened.
She looks like a warrior. I mean, Bellatrix does mean warrior. And she's also a bit of a fatale. She's the right hand of Voldemort, and the only woman death eater.
Some people are so afraid to die that they never begin to live.
What you possess in the world will be found at the day of your death to belong to someone else. But what you are will be yours forever.
